{"id":662720,"date":"2021-08-19T16:50:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T20:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=662720"},"modified":"2021-08-19T16:50:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T20:50:38","slug":"biden-teams-naive-confidence-in-taliban-led-to-catastrophic-withdrawal-former-cia-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-teams-naive-confidence-in-taliban-led-to-catastrophic-withdrawal-former-cia-official-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Team\u2019s \u2018Na\u00efve Confidence\u2019 In Taliban Led To Catastrophic Withdrawal, Former CIA Official Says"},"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\">28<\/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-teams-naive-confidence-in-taliban-led-to-catastrophic-withdrawal-former-cia-official-says%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=662720&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-1334914307-scaled-e1629404195407.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A former CIA counterterrorism chief criticized the \u201cna\u00efve confidence\u201d of President Joe Biden\u2019s foreign policy advisors who believed the Taliban would adhere to a withdrawal agreement with the U.S. in an opinion piece for Just Security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a rather na\u00efve confidence among Biden\u2019s more influential foreign policy advisors that the Taliban\u2019s best interests were served by adhering to the agreement\u2019s main points,\u201d former CIA Chief Counterterrorism Officer&nbsp;for South and Southwest Asia Douglas London <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justsecurity.org\/77801\/cias-former-counterterrorism-chief-for-the-region-afghanistan-not-an-intelligence-failure-something-much-worse\/\">wrote<\/a> in Just Security on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>London prepared assessments on Afghanistan for former President Donald Trump and provided insight on the same issues as a volunteer for Biden\u2019s counterterrorism working group, according to the piece. He retired from the CIA in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s most influential advisors thought that following the agreement would allow the U.S. to withdraw while leaving room for a more \u201cconstructive\u201d deal if the Taliban did take over Afghanistan, London wrote. To London, this was always misguided.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Taliban\u2019s control over the country was predicated on isolation from the rest of the world, rather than integration,\u201d he wrote. \u201cInternational recognition, global financial access, and foreign aid were not going to influence how the Taliban would rule.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.3400809716599\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BIDEN: \u201cThe truth is this did unfold more quickly that we had anticipated\u2026 Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country, the Afghan military collapsed.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qFj3si37f8\">pic.twitter.com\/qFj3si37f8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1427362768462692370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/17\/state-department-afghanistan-taliban-american-citizens-kabul-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Americans are now stuck<\/a> in the Taliban-controlled Kabul alongside Afghan allies who say they are in danger because they helped U.S. troops. Some Americans in the country say&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/18\/american-stuck-afghanistan-kabul-taliban-fox-friends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taliban checkpoints<\/a> make it difficult to get to the airport to evacuate.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban commander Waheedullah Hashimi said Afghanistan will adhere to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/19\/taliban-afghanistan-sharia-law-democracy-women-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sharia law and nothing else<\/a> on Thursday, declaring there would be no sort of democracy in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1427362768462692370\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> the Taliban takeover unfolded faster than anticipated in a national address on Monday, but London says that simply isn\u2019t true. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/18\/joe-biden-afghanistan-taliban-abc-interview-kabul-evacuation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Biden Vows To Remain In Afghanistan Until Everyone Is Evacuated)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, it was assessed, Afghan forces might capitulate&nbsp;within days under the circumstances we witnessed, in projections highlighted to Trump officials and future Biden officials alike,\u201d London wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe failure was not due to any lack of warning, but rather the hubris and political risk calculus of decision makers whose choices are too often made in their personal and political interest or with pre-committed policy choices,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former CIA counterterrorism chief criticized the \u201cna\u00efve confidence\u201d of President Joe Biden\u2019s foreign policy advisors who believed the Taliban would adhere to a withdrawal agreement with the U.S. in &#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-662720","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\/662720","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=662720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662720\/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=662720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}