{"id":666044,"date":"2021-08-20T15:20:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T19:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=666044"},"modified":"2021-08-20T15:20:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T19:20:23","slug":"biden-ignores-brits-claims-allies-havent-questioned-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-ignores-brits-claims-allies-havent-questioned-withdrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Ignores Brits, Claims Allies Haven\u2019t Questioned Withdrawal"},"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\">16<\/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-ignores-brits-claims-allies-havent-questioned-withdrawal%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=666044&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\/biden-afghanistan-remarks-e1629486507427.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"50.756991321119\">\n<p>President Joe Biden claimed during a Friday press conference that he has not seen any criticism from allied nations&nbsp; of the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, apparently ignoring cross-partisan criticism from British Members of Parliament (MPs).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have seen no question of our credibility from our allies around the world. I\u2019ve spoken with our NATO allies. We\u2019ve spoken with NATO allies, the secretary of state, our national security adviser has been in contact with his counterparts throughout the world and our allies, as has the general \u2014or, excuse me, I keep calling him a general \u2014 but my secretary of defense. The fact of the matter is, I have not seen that. The matter of fact is, I\u2019ve gotten the exact opposite,\u201d Biden told The Associated Press\u2019 Zeke Miller about allied criticism of the American withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous MPs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/18\/world\/europe\/britain-afghanistan-johnson-biden.html\">blasted<\/a> Biden after he failed to return a phone call from Prime Minister Boris Johnson for nearly 36 hours. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/19\/nigel-farage-bidens-bungled-afghanistan-exit-end-america-global-super-power\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Is This The End Of America As The Global Super Power?\u2019: Nigel Farage Issues Dire Warning After Biden\u2019s Bungled Exit)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Conservative MP and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee Tom Tugendhat <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/18\/british-veteran-defends-afghan-fighters-torches-biden-parliament\/\">slammed<\/a> Biden\u2019s criticism of Afghan troops as \u201cshameful\u201d during a Wednesday floor speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve watched good men go into the earth, taking with them a part of me, and a part of all of us,\u201d he said. \u201cThose who have never fought for the colors they fly should be careful of criticizing those who have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo overlook the fighting of the Afghan troops and forces, and the fact that they have been at the forefront of that fighting in recent years, is wrong,\u201d Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/politics\/2021\/08\/18\/parliament-holds-joe-biden-contempt-afghanistan\/\">said<\/a>. More than 60,000 Afghan troops and police were killed fighting the Taliban over the last two decades, <a href=\"https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/figures\/2021\/human-and-budgetary-costs-date-us-war-afghanistan-2001-2021\">according<\/a> to a Brown University estimate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden government have just come in and, without looking at what is happening on the ground, have taken a unilateral decision, throwing us and everybody else to the fire,\u201d Labour MP and former Defense Minister Khalil Mahmood added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden claimed during a Friday press conference that he has not seen any criticism from allied nations\u00a0 of the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, apparently ignoring &#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-666044","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\/666044","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=666044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666044\/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=666044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}