{"id":679693,"date":"2021-08-24T12:20:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T16:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=679693"},"modified":"2021-08-24T12:20:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T16:20:30","slug":"stack-taliban-bodies-pete-hegseth-says-direct-threats-are-the-only-way-to-get-american-hostages-out-of-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stack-taliban-bodies-pete-hegseth-says-direct-threats-are-the-only-way-to-get-american-hostages-out-of-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stack Taliban Bodies\u2019: Pete Hegseth Says Direct Threats Are The Only Way To Get American \u2018Hostages\u2019 Out Of Afghanistan"},"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\">38<\/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%2Fstack-taliban-bodies-pete-hegseth-says-direct-threats-are-the-only-way-to-get-american-hostages-out-of-afghanistan%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=679693&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:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-24-at-10.36.54-AM-e1629821024815.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Fox News host Pete Hegseth said Monday that the only way to ensure the ability to get Americans out of Afghanistan was to threaten the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/12\/brian-kilmeade-biden-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brian Kilmeade<\/a>&nbsp;argued on Tuesday morning\u2019s \u201cFox &amp; Friends\u201d that the Taliban only understood strength \u2014 and to bolster his point he aired a clip of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/23\/pete-hegseth-taliban-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hegseth<\/a>, a former Army National Guard officer, saying that United States officials should just tell them that the government was going to rescue Americans on the ground with or without their cooperation or permission. <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/24\/government-worker-family-stranded-cant-get-to-kabul-airport-beaten-whipped\/\">(RELATED: \u2018We Are Stranded\u2019: Government Worker Says Family Is \u2018Trapped,\u2019 Can\u2019t Get To Kabul Airport Without Being Beaten And Whipped)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are at the whim of our enemy. The people who facilitated the 9\/11 attacks now control which Americans are allowed to flee the country,\u201d Hegseth began, saying that the Americans and Afghan translators still on the ground had effectively been rendered \u201chostages\u201d of the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are calling the Taliban and asking permission and not pushing out to secure perimeter and making it very clear if you harm a hair on the head of an American, we\u2019re going to stack Taliban bodies,\u201d Hegseth continued. \u201cGive us 24 hours, wide open, every American in, if you touch one, you die. It\u2019s not hard. But we won\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won\u2019t do it,\u201d Kilmeade agreed. \u201cAnd we are capable of doing it. At some point the president has got realize if you leave thousands of people in country, we are going to have to put thousands more into Afghanistan to secure their safe passage. The Taliban only understand strength. All they are getting is weakness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kilmeade also noted that former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson had predicted things would get worse before they got better.<\/p>\n<p>Part of what was complicating evacuation efforts, Kilmeade added, was the fact that some Americans who traveled to Afghanistan had not notified the United States Embassy when they arrived \u2014 and he argued that President Joe Biden\u2019s administration was using that complication to set up an excuse for not <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/24\/editor-daily-rundown-white-house-flips-reality-americans-arent-stranded-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">getting everyone out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you understand what the administration is doing? They keep saying, \u2018Well, when Americans come to Afghanistan, they\u2019re supposed to register with the Embassy, some didn\u2019t. That\u2019s their right so we don\u2019t even know where they are,&#8217;\u201d Kilmeade concluded. \u201cThey are setting you up to say, \u2018They\u2019re stuck, not our fault.\u2019 Not acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News host Pete Hegseth said Monday that the only way to ensure the ability to get Americans out of Afghanistan was to threaten the Taliban.Brian Kilmeade\u00a0argued on Tuesday morning\u2019s &#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-679693","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\/679693","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=679693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679693\/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=679693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}