{"id":700536,"date":"2021-08-30T17:20:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T21:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=700536"},"modified":"2021-08-30T17:20:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T21:20:25","slug":"psaki-wont-say-whether-us-met-its-objective-for-afghanistan-evacuations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-wont-say-whether-us-met-its-objective-for-afghanistan-evacuations\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki Won\u2019t Say Whether US Met Its Objective For Afghanistan Evacuations"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fpsaki-wont-say-whether-us-met-its-objective-for-afghanistan-evacuations%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=700536&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\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-30-at-3.55.20-PM-scaled-e1630357055207.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki, during a press briefing Monday, wouldn\u2019t directly answer when asked if the U.S. met its objective in terms of evacuating people from Afghanistan ahead of the Aug. 31 deadline to withdraw U.S. troops from the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo as we approach that deadline, either tonight or tomorrow, whatever it is, did the U.S. accomplish its objective knowing that there will be likely thousands of [Special Immigrant Visa] applicants and others still there, and certainly some Americans as well? Did we achieve our objective?\u201d NBC News\u2019 White House correspondent Peter Alexander asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think, first, we have to date evacuated more than 120,000 people \u2014 that\u2019s 120,000 lives that we have saved \u2014 including 6,000 Americans and their families, many of them dual nationals,\u201d Psaki responded. \u201cAnd we are continuing \u2014 our commitment is enduring to Afghan partners, to American citizens who may not have decided to leave \u2014 that is their right to determine when they want to leave \u2014 that commitment is enduring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we have saved 120,000 lives and I will let you evaluate that for yourself,\u201d she reiterated, without directly answering Alexander\u2019s question as to whether the U.S. accomplished its objective in terms of getting people out of the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaitlancollins\/status\/1432441376617246725\">announced the completion<\/a> of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan at a press briefing earlier Monday even though President Joe Biden had promised earlier that the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/18\/joe-biden-afghanistan-taliban-abc-interview-kabul-evacuation\/\">would keep troops in<\/a> Afghanistan past the deadline if deemed necessary to evacuate all Americans from the country. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/30\/ron-johnson-american-citizens-blocked-kabul-airport-state-department\/\">(RELATED: US Military Allegedly Blocked American Citizens From Entering Kabul Airport, Top GOP Senator Demands To Know Why)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A U.S. official with direct knowledge of the situation <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/24\/americans-evacuated-afghanistan-white-house-several-thousand-remain\/\">told the Daily Caller<\/a> last week it seems \u201cdoubtful\u201d whether the U.S. can bring the Americans remaining in Afghanistan before the deadline. The Taliban had also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/23\/taliban-spokesperson-joe-biden-withdrawal-extension-wont-happen-provoke-reaction\/\">threatened retaliation<\/a> against Americans and others if U.S. forces remained in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department said Sunday around 250 Americans who are still in Afghanistan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/andrewsolender\/2021\/08\/29\/us-says-250-americans-left-in-afghanistan-trying-to-exit-others-undecided\/\">are trying to leave<\/a> while the remaining Americans are \u201cundecided\u201d about leaving or \u201cdo not intend to depart.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki, during a press briefing Monday, wouldn\u2019t directly answer when asked if the U.S. met its objective in terms of evacuating people from Afghanistan ahead &#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-700536","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\/700536","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=700536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700536\/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=700536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}