{"id":700377,"date":"2021-08-30T16:35:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T20:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=700377"},"modified":"2021-08-30T16:35:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T20:35:25","slug":"trump-calls-for-unequivocal-military-force-if-taliban-doesnt-return-american-weaponry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-calls-for-unequivocal-military-force-if-taliban-doesnt-return-american-weaponry\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Calls For \u2018Unequivocal Military Force\u2019 If Taliban Doesn\u2019t Return American Weaponry"},"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\">24<\/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%2Ftrump-calls-for-unequivocal-military-force-if-taliban-doesnt-return-american-weaponry%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=700377&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--><p>Former President Donald Trump on Monday called for the U.S. to use \u201cunequivocal military force\u201d against the Taliban if the terrorist group refuses to return billions of dollars in weaponry that was left behind during the American evacuation.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who has frequently <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/26\/trump-slams-biden-hannity-afghanistan-withdrawal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criticized<\/a> the withdrawal\u2019s execution, added that the U.S. should \u201cat least bomb the hell out of\u201d the equipment to prevent the Taliban from using it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever in history has a withdrawal from war been handled so badly or incompetently as the Biden Administration\u2019s withdrawal from Afghanistan,\u201d Trump said in a statement. \u201cIn addition to the obvious, ALL EQUIPMENT should be demanded to be immediately returned to the United States, and that includes every penny of the $85 billion dollars in cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it is not handed back, we should either go in with unequivocal Military force and get it, or at least bomb the hell out of it. Nobody ever thought such stupidity, as this feeble-brained withdrawal, was possible!\u201d he added. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/27\/peter-meijer-cooperating-taliban-save-american-lives-afghanistan-infuriating\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018The Aggravating, Infuriating Reality\u2019: Peter Meijer Describes How Cooperating With The Taliban Is Critical To Saving Americans In Afghanistan)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7269287\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7269287\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7269287\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234821679.jpg\" alt=\"KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 21: In this handout provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, a Marine with the 24th Marine Expeditionary unit (MEU) passes out water to evacuees during the evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport during the evacuation on August 21, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The U.S. military is assisting in the evacuation effort. (Photo by Isaiah Campbell\/U.S. Marine Corps via Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234821679.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234821679-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234821679-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234821679-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234821679-1536x1023-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7269287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Marine passes out water to evacuees during the evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport during the evacuation on August 21. (Isaiah Campbell\/U.S. Marine Corps via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Multiple reports have described the guns, cars, helicopters and more that were left in Afghanistan as the Taliban <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/15\/taliban-fighters-enter-kabul-afghan-president-ashraf-ghani-flees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">retook the country<\/a> in less than two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>White House officials have admitted that they do not know where all the equipment has gone, and that it is unlikely they will get it back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have a complete picture, obviously, of where every article of defense materials has gone, but certainly a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban,\u201d Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, said in a press briefing earlier this month. \u201cAnd obviously, we don\u2019t have a sense that they are going to readily hand it over to us at the airport.\u201d<\/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>Former President Donald Trump on Monday called for the U.S. to use \u201cunequivocal military force\u201d against the Taliban if the terrorist group refuses to return billions of dollars in weaponry &#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-700377","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\/700377","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=700377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700377\/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=700377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}