{"id":703388,"date":"2021-08-31T13:51:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T17:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=703388"},"modified":"2021-08-31T13:51:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T17:51:05","slug":"pentagon-spox-we-have-americans-that-get-stranded-in-countries-all-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-spox-we-have-americans-that-get-stranded-in-countries-all-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Spox: \u2018We Have Americans That Get Stranded in Countries All the Time\u2019"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fpentagon-spox-we-have-americans-that-get-stranded-in-countries-all-the-time%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=703388&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-2021-08-31-at-12.35.04-PM-e1630427754227.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Department of Defense spokesman John Kirby on Tuesday downplayed the plight of nearly 200 Americans trapped in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, saying U.S. citizens &#8220;get stranded \u2026 all the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s not completely unlike the way we do it elsewhere around the world,&#8221; Kirby told MSNBC. &#8220;We have Americans that get stranded in countries all the time, and we do everything we can to facilitate safe passage.&#8221; He added that the Biden administration does not &#8220;see a military role right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Up to 200 Americans and thousands of Afghans trying to leave the clutches of the Taliban are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/31\/us\/politics\/us-residents-kabul-evacuation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stranded<\/a> in Afghanistan. Their exit from the country is complicated by the Taliban\u2019s complete control of the nation, including the capital city of Kabul and its airport. The terrorist group has reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sudhirchaudhary\/status\/1432598354521772035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hanged<\/a> Afghan interpreters who assisted the United States&#8217; military efforts over the past two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to evacuate the remaining Americans have also been complicated by the Taliban&#8217;s seizure of advanced U.S. weapons and vehicles <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nabihbulos\/status\/1432457587576950788?s=20\">left behind<\/a> at the Kabul airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Defense spokesman John Kirby on Tuesday downplayed the plight of nearly 200 Americans trapped in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, saying U.S. citizens &#8220;get stranded \u2026 all the time.&#8221; &#8220;It\u2019s not &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-703388","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\/703388","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703388\/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=703388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}