{"id":672260,"date":"2021-08-22T12:22:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T16:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=672260"},"modified":"2021-08-22T12:22:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T16:22:11","slug":"defense-secy-austin-on-afghanistan-nobody-predicted-the-government-would-fall-in-11-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defense-secy-austin-on-afghanistan-nobody-predicted-the-government-would-fall-in-11-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense Secy. Austin on Afghanistan: Nobody predicted the government would fall in 11 days"},"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%2Fdefense-secy-austin-on-afghanistan-nobody-predicted-the-government-would-fall-in-11-days%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=672260&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 id=\"attachment_2497661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2497661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin participates in a news briefing at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 9:09 AM PT \u2013 Sunday, August 22, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has prepared to potentially extend the deadline of the final withdrawal from Afghanistan. Speaking with ABC on Sunday, Austin said the Biden administration would update the withdrawal date if the facts on the ground necessitated a longer stay.<\/p>\n<p>He added the Taliban was letting Americans through safely in contradiction to his previous claims of the Taliban assaulting Americans. When asked about the rushed evacuations, Austin said nobody expected the country would fall to the Taliban in less than two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were assessments initially that ranged from one to two years to several months, but it was a wide range of assessments,\u201d he stated. \u201c\u2026It was very difficult to predict with accuracy this all occurred in the span of about 11 days. Nobody predicted that the government would fall in 11 days.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ranking Member <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMikeRogersAL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepMikeRogersAL<\/a>: &#8220;The President needs to wake up and give us a plan now for how we get our fellow Americans and allies safely out of Afghanistan.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LAybmMnSuR\">https:\/\/t.co\/LAybmMnSuR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UTNdHLm6YB\">pic.twitter.com\/UTNdHLm6YB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Armed Services GOP (@HASCRepublicans) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HASCRepublicans\/status\/1429119599543529489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The evacuation has continued amid unrest in Kabul, with an unknown number of Americans still in need to return home.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/texas-gov-abbott-tests-negative-for-covid-19\/\">Texas Gov. Abbott Tests Negative For COVID-19<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin participates in a news briefing at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. 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