{"id":661178,"date":"2021-08-19T07:51:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T11:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=661178"},"modified":"2021-08-19T07:51:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T11:51:55","slug":"crenshaw-takes-on-no-more-endless-wars-crowd-they-prefer-to-live-in-a-dream-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/crenshaw-takes-on-no-more-endless-wars-crowd-they-prefer-to-live-in-a-dream-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Crenshaw Takes On \u2018No More Endless Wars\u2019 Crowd: \u2018They Prefer To Live In A Dream World\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fcrenshaw-takes-on-no-more-endless-wars-crowd-they-prefer-to-live-in-a-dream-world%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=661178&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\/Dan-Crenshaw-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Writing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/endless-wars-neocon-biden-afghanistan-withdrawal-kabul-taliban-terrorist-jihadist-11629209389\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) harshly criticized those people including President Biden who have lamented \u201cno more endless wars\u201d regarding Afghanistan. Crenshaw wrote, \u201cThey prefer to live in a dream world rather than face the reality that our enemies are ideologically opposed to Western civilization and will gladly stage another 9\/11 if they have the opportunity and means.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crenshaw began by acknowledging, \u201cAlmost everyone agrees that what\u2019s happening in Afghanistan is an unmitigated disaster. There is no way to whitewash it, and few are trying. The scenes from Kabul speak for themselves, casting shame and embarrassment on the world\u2019s greatest superpower.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is plenty of blame being passed around, including to the \u2018neocons,\u2019 the generals and the Afghans themselves,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut what got us here was the widespread belief that American foreign policy should be dictated by a simple slogan: \u2018No more endless wars.\u2019 The current spokesman for that belief is President Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFew deny we needed to take action after 9\/11, but few understood what our strategy would be after we got there,\u201d Crenshaw pointed out. \u201cLeaders failed to explain that simply leaving would allow the Taliban to re-emerge and again provide safe haven for terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this growing impatience, the case for cutting our losses grew stronger. But it fails to acknowledge trade-offs\u2014and this simple question: If we evacuate Afghanistan, what will happen?\u201d Crenshaw asked. \u201cThe \u2018no more endless wars\u2019 crowd always refused to answer. They prefer to live in a dream world rather than face the reality that our enemies are ideologically opposed to Western civilization and will gladly stage another 9\/11 if they have the opportunity and means. They are at war with us whether or not we are at war with them. Leaving Afghanistan would inevitably create a terrorist safe haven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2018no more endless wars\u2019 position has another blind spot,\u201d Crenshaw surmised. \u201cIts advocates are unable to distinguish between wasteful nation building and a small residual force that conducts occasional counterterror operations. As a result, when many Americans hear that there is a single soldier on the ground in Afghanistan, they interpret it to mean \u2018nation building\u2019 and \u2018world police.\u2019 That\u2019s wrong. There are a lot of foreign policy options between nation building and giving up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. presence in Afghanistan was meeting the original strategic goal of denying a safe haven for terrorists and preventing another 9\/11. The 18 months before withdrawal saw no U.S. combat deaths,\u201d Crenshaw noted. \u201cDoes that really sound like \u2018endless war\u2019 in any traditional sense? More important, does it sound better or worse than the current outcome?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He turned to Biden: \u201cMr. Biden\u2019s decision was reckless and unnecessary. Policy aside, there wasn\u2019t even political pressure to take such thoughtless action. The facts on the ground didn\u2019t warrant a hasty withdrawal, and intelligence predicted the Taliban would eventually take over. Even worse, this decision was made as the spring fighting season began, all but guaranteeing a Taliban offensive emboldened by the knowledge of an imminent U.S. withdrawal and a collapse of morale by our Afghan allies in uniform and in government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crenshaw concluded:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"13\">\n<p><em>America didn\u2019t lose a war, or even end one. We gave up on a strategic national-security interest. We gave up on our Afghan allies, expecting them to stave off a ruthless insurgency without our crucial support, which came at minimal cost to us. This administration\u2019s actions are heartless, its justifications nonsensical. The consequences are dire for innocent Afghans and for America\u2019s prestige. Twenty years after 9\/11, I pray they don\u2019t become equally dire for Americans at home.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) harshly criticized those people including President Biden who have lamented \u201cno more endless wars\u201d regarding Afghanistan. Crenshaw wrote, \u201cThey prefer &#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-661178","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\/661178","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=661178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661178\/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=661178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}