{"id":659313,"date":"2021-08-18T19:05:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T23:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=659313"},"modified":"2021-08-18T19:05:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T23:05:25","slug":"biden-remains-defiant-in-afghanistan-withdrawal-process-says-there-was-no-way-of-getting-out-without-chaos-ensuing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-remains-defiant-in-afghanistan-withdrawal-process-says-there-was-no-way-of-getting-out-without-chaos-ensuing\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Remains Defiant In Afghanistan Withdrawal Process, Says There Was No Way Of Getting Out \u2018Without Chaos Ensuing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-remains-defiant-in-afghanistan-withdrawal-process-says-there-was-no-way-of-getting-out-without-chaos-ensuing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=659313&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1333633670-scaled-e1629327240701.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden defended the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and said he saw no way of getting \u201cout without chaos ensuing\u201d during an ABC News interview Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has been sharply criticized from both sides of the aisle after the Taliban <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/17\/white-house-evacuation-us-citizens-resident-afghanistan\/\">quickly took<\/a> control of Afghanistan, walking into Kabul on Aug. 15 and declaring the \u201cIslamic State of Afghanistan.\u201d The <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/biden-withdraw-afghanistan-chaos-ensuing\/story?id=79507930&amp;cid=clicksource_4380645_1_heads_hero_live_hero_hed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ABC News interview<\/a> with George Stephanopoulos, which airs Thursday morning, was Biden\u2019s first time answering <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/18\/white-house-messaging-afghanistan-rapid-makeover\/\">questions<\/a> about the situation, and he continued to defend the drawdown and admitted he believed chaos would\u2019ve occur no matter what.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you don\u2019t think this could have been handled \u2014 this exit could have been handled better in any way, no mistakes?\u201d Stephanopoulos asked, according to a preview of the interview released by ABC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I don\u2019t think it could have been handled in a way that, we\u2019re gonna go back in hindsight and look \u2014 but the idea that somehow, there\u2019s a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don\u2019t know how that happens. I don\u2019t know how that happened,\u201d the president replied. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/16\/joe-biden-address-nation-afghanistan-taliban\/\">(RELATED:&nbsp;Returning From Vacation, Biden Plays Blame Game As Afghanistan Falls)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.616045845272\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">EXCLUSIVE: Pressed on whether the U.S.\u2019s exit from Afghanistan could have been handled better, Pres. Biden tells me, \u201cThe idea that somehow, there\u2019s a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing\u2014I don\u2019t know how that happens.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j2MYMUJcdK\">https:\/\/t.co\/j2MYMUJcdK<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ua9T2q9wal\">pic.twitter.com\/ua9T2q9wal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GeorgeStephanopoulos (@GStephanopoulos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GStephanopoulos\/status\/1428101934658080778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The president said \u201cyes\u201d when asked whether that chaos was always included in his decision making. He quickly changed his answer, however, saying he didn\u2019t price in \u201cexactly what happened\u201d before going off to discuss what the administration thought the Taliban might to in terms of trying to stop the evacuation process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow exactly what happened, I\u2019ve not priced in,\u201d Biden explained. \u201cBut I knew that they\u2019re going to have an enormous \u2013 Look, one of the things we didn\u2019t know is what the Taliban would do in terms of trying to keep people from getting out. What they would do. What are they doing now? They\u2019re cooperating, letting American citizens get out, American personnel get out, embassies get out, et cetera, but they\u2019re having \u2013 we\u2019re having some more difficulty having those who helped us when we were in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden was also pressed on the images showing <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/16\/department-of-defense-military-bases-afghanistan-refugees-taliban-evacuation-translators\/\">Afghans<\/a> clinging to U.S. airplanes and falling from the sky. He became defiant and complained that they were from \u201cfour days ago, five days ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I thought was, we have to gain control of this,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/18\/joe-biden-rebuffs-confronted-image-afghans-falling-us-planes\/\">added<\/a> when asked for his first thoughts upon seeing the pictures. \u201cWe have to move this more quickly. We have to move in a way in which we can take control of that airport. And we did!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden defended the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and said he saw no way of getting \u201cout without chaos ensuing\u201d during an ABC News interview Wednesday.Biden has been sharply &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}