{"id":704039,"date":"2021-08-31T17:22:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=704039"},"modified":"2021-08-31T17:22:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T21:22:11","slug":"gop-rep-rogers-defends-military-what-happened-was-biden-administrations-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-rep-rogers-defends-military-what-happened-was-biden-administrations-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Rep. Rogers Defends Military: What Happened Was Biden Administration\u2019s Fault"},"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%2Fgop-rep-rogers-defends-military-what-happened-was-biden-administrations-fault%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=704039&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\/GettyImages-1228560108.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday, Congressman Mike Rogers (R-AL) the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, blasted the Biden administration for its withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying, \u201cWhat happened is their fault. It was not a military operation; the military was there in support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rogers began by slamming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for not recognizing Wisconsin GOP Rep. Mike Gallagher\u2019s resolution, which called for doing whatever was necessary to save Americans stranded in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p><em>First, I want to make the point that Speaker Pelosi may have ran away this morning from dealing with these issues on the House floor by not recognizing Mr. Gallagher\u2019s resolution; they won\u2019t be able to run from it tomorrow. The &nbsp;House Armed Services Committee starts its mark-up of the National Defense Authorization Act tomorrow morning. There will be many amendments addressing this; Mr. Gallagher is a member of our committee. &nbsp;I am certain he intends to bring up all components of his resolution to be debated fully in the Armed Services Committee.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Then Rogers turned to the Biden administration:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"13\">\n<p><em>Second: This disaster that we just experienced in Afghanistan is solely the responsibility of Joe Biden, (Secretary of State) Anthony Blinken, and Jake Sullivan and their leadership team. This is not a military failure; this was not a military operation. The chain of command in Afghanistan was led by the State Department; the decisions were led by the State Department missions. The troop levels were led by the State Department decisions. So when you saw Bagram closed, that was a State Department and Joe Biden decision. When you saw us only have 600 troops in Kabul when the Turks had 900, the Brits had 500, that was a decision driven by the State Department.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden and Anthony Blinken and Jake Sullivan can\u2019t shirk responsibility for this,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat happened is their fault. It was not a military operation; the military was there in support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rogers then segued to the threat from terrorism abroad:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p>Third and final point: We\u2019ve got to move forward with this terrible situation that we have right now. What I have asked Secretary Austin last night, General Milley this morning is to be thinking about options for us in the future for counter-terrorism and ISR capabilities. The fact is that now that we are out we have no eyes and ears on what\u2019s going on in Afghanistan. This \u201cover-the-horizon\u201d suggestion that Anthony Blinken has talked about is ridiculous.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rogers named a couple of U.S. Air Force bases and said if the U.S. flew out of them, \u201cYou\u2019re looking at having to fly down to the Arabian Sea and then over Pakistan to get in; it\u2019s a seven to eight-hour flight; you might have an hour or two hours of coverage. That is not effective, and that\u2019s assuming that Pakistan will continue to allow us to fly over it. We all know the Taliban is nothing but a Pakistan proxy, and we don\u2019t know that we\u2019ll continue to have that privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He concluded, \u201cWe have to have a base somewhere in Afghanistan. This idea that one of the other \u2018stans\u2019 is going to allow us to have basing? Russia and China will never let happen. We have to have something in the \u2018stans.\u2019 So I\u2019ve charged both of them with coming up with proposals for us; we have got to deal with this counter-terrorism and ISR vulnerability or we will have another attack on our soil. And that\u2019s not an option.\u201d<\/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. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Congressman Mike Rogers (R-AL) the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, blasted the Biden administration for its withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying, \u201cWhat happened is their fault. &#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-704039","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\/704039","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=704039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704039\/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=704039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}