{"id":706092,"date":"2021-09-01T10:37:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T14:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=706092"},"modified":"2021-09-01T10:37:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T14:37:07","slug":"honest-joe-spins-defeat-into-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/honest-joe-spins-defeat-into-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Honest Joe Spins Defeat into Victory"},"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\">12<\/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%2Fhonest-joe-spins-defeat-into-victory%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=706092&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-1234877920-1-scaled-e1629998843146.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>To hear President Joe Biden tell it, the American evacuation from Afghanistan paralleled the D-Day invasion in execution and bravery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No nation has ever done anything like it in all the history [sic],&#8221; Biden told the country on Tuesday. His predecessor, with whom he saddled the blame for this so-called success, couldn&#8217;t have said it better.<\/p>\n<p>As Biden congratulated himself for an operation that resulted in the unnecessary deaths of 13 Americans and left hundreds of Americans and thousands of our allies stranded in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, he insisted that it was &#8220;time to be honest with the American people again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s off to a sorry start, describing the &#8220;extraordinary success&#8221; of, among others, America&#8217;s &#8220;intelligence professionals&#8221;\u2014the same ones who couldn&#8217;t predict the rapid demise of the Afghan government.<\/p>\n<p>Up next, Biden crowed that &#8220;90 percent of Americans who were in Afghanistan who wanted to leave were able to leave&#8221; and touted the administration&#8217;s new strategy to fight terrorism with &#8220;over the horizon&#8221; strikes. The one that targeted the inbound suicide bomber at the Kabul airport who took out 13 Americans seems to have been a miss. Same goes for the next one, which left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/08\/29\/asia\/afghanistan-kabul-evacuation-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seven children<\/a> dead.<\/p>\n<p>Even if one takes at face value, and we do not, that the evacuation of 5,000 Americans and 100,000 Afghans from Kabul was a success, Winston Churchill&#8217;s remark about the heroic rescue of British troops at Dunkirk remains true: &#8220;We must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If Biden were actually committed to leveling with the American people, he might&#8217;ve told them the truth: that his administration and America are waving the white flag and choosing dishonor over war.<\/p>\n<p>We are now likely to get both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To hear President Joe Biden tell it, the American evacuation from Afghanistan paralleled the D-Day invasion in execution and bravery. &#8220;No nation has ever done anything like it in all &#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-706092","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\/706092","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=706092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706092\/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=706092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}