{"id":703686,"date":"2021-08-31T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=703686"},"modified":"2021-08-31T15:36:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T19:36:01","slug":"biden-admin-considering-giving-taliban-direct-aid-despite-sanctions-terror-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-considering-giving-taliban-direct-aid-despite-sanctions-terror-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Considering Giving Taliban Direct Aid Despite Sanctions, Terror Ties"},"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%2Fbiden-admin-considering-giving-taliban-direct-aid-despite-sanctions-terror-ties%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=703686&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\/JS-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The United States is now reportedly considering giving direct financial aid and economic assistance to the Taliban, despite international sanctions placed on the group over its material support for radical Islamic terrorism, and despite nearly two decades of considering the Taliban a sworn enemy.<\/p>\n<p>Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told ABC News\u2019 George Stephanopoulos that the U.S. is considering aid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is an important dimension of humanitarian assistance that should go directly to the people of Afghanistan,\u201d Sullivan began. \u201cThey need help with respect to health, and food aid, and other forms of subsistence, and we do intend to continue that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecondly, when it comes to our economic and development assistance relationship with the Taliban, that will be about the Taliban\u2019s actions,\u201d he continued. \u201cThat will be about whether they follow through on their commitments to safe passage for Americans and Afghan allies, their commitment to not allow Afghanistan a base from which terrorists can attack the United States or any other country, their commitments with respect to upholding their international obligations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIts going to be up to them,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cAnd we will wait and see, by their actions, how we end up responding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan\u2019s comments mean that the Biden Administration has not taken direct aid to the Taliban government off the table, even though the United States designates the Taliban a \u201cterrorist\u201d entity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Taliban are designated as a terrorist group by the United States. The sanctions freeze any U.S. assets of the group and bars Americans from dealing with them, including the contribution of funds, goods or services,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us-taking-steps-allow-humanitarian-aid-afghanistan-continue-2021-08-26\/\">Reuters noted earlier in August<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has spoke favorably about providing aid to the Afghan people, but that is complicated by the Taliban now being in control of the government, which is largely responsible for disbursing that aid. <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/taliban-takeover-afghanistan-news-today-us-aid-war\/10958249\/\">WLS Chicago previously reported<\/a> that the Taliban \u201csiphoned off\u201d nearly 50% of all aid poured into Afghanistan since the beginning of the war; that aid effectively enabled the Taliban to begin its military offensive \u2014 an offensive that led to the U.S.\u2019s premature and arguably disastrous withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongress has said that most of the aid the US has sent in the past several years, didn\u2019t end up with the people who need it already, but they figured that about 50% of American aid to Afghanistan in the past several years, has been siphoned off to warlords or to corruption or to fraud,\u201d a Northwestern University political science professor told the outlet. \u201cAnd so with the change in government in Afghanistan I think the odds of using American money to influence events and improve people\u2019s lives are pretty slim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is likely that the Biden administration views economic aid as the \u201cleverage\u201d it has often referred to in discussions over how the administration plans to extract the \u201chundreds\u201d of Americans who wanted to evacuate but were left behind when the U.S. pulled out on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The administration, for example, \u201cmight try to use foreign aid as leverage to persuade the Taliban to uphold human rights, particularly with respect to allowing refugees to leave the country and allowing women and girls to continue to pursue education and work opportunities outside the home,\u201d the Hill reported.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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