{"id":706568,"date":"2021-09-01T13:50:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T17:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=706568"},"modified":"2021-09-01T13:50:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T17:50:13","slug":"foolish-advisers-who-live-in-a-fantasyland-pete-hegseth-says-a-un-resolution-wont-impact-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/foolish-advisers-who-live-in-a-fantasyland-pete-hegseth-says-a-un-resolution-wont-impact-the-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Foolish Advisers Who Live In A Fantasyland\u2019: Pete Hegseth Says A UN Resolution Won\u2019t Impact The Taliban"},"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\">34<\/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%2Ffoolish-advisers-who-live-in-a-fantasyland-pete-hegseth-says-a-un-resolution-wont-impact-the-taliban%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=706568&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\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-01-at-12.06.53-PM-e1630517336603.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Fox News host Pete Hegseth mocked officials Wednesday for touting a United Nations resolution on the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/30\/geraldo-rivera-pete-hegseth-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hegseth<\/a> described them as \u201cfoolish advisers who are living in a fantasyland,\u201d arguing that the Taliban would not respond to a strongly-worded letter from the U.N. and would likely prevent any U.S. aid from reaching the Afghan people who needed it. <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/24\/stack-taliban-bodies-pete-hegseth-direct-threats-get-american-hostages-out-afghanistan\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Stack Taliban Bodies\u2019: Pete Hegseth Says Direct Threats Are The Only Way To Get American \u2018Hostages\u2019 Out Of Afghanistan)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOutnumbered\u201d cohost Kayleigh McEnany began the segment with a clip of National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, noting that he appeared to have trouble naming the Taliban as an \u201cenemy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to put a label on it,\u201d Sullivan said.<\/p>\n<p>McEnany went on to say that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/29\/jake-sullivan-cannot-rule-out-attack-islamists-white-supremacists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sullivan<\/a> had not ruled out the possibility of the United States offering aid to the Afghan people \u2014 through the Taliban \u2014 in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won\u2019t call them an enemy and we know that General McKenzie just about a week or so ago said in fact they are our \u2018Afghan partners.\u2019 I do not think the administration is very clear-eyed, do you?\u201d McEnany continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, and I\u2019m sure that the international aid he whimsically talks about will make its way right into the hands of the poor Afghans, that\u2019s exactly where it will end up in a notoriously corrupt country with the Taliban in charge,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/23\/pete-hegseth-taliban-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hegseth<\/a> responded sarcastically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are the kind of ideas that come out of someone who\u2019s never had a real job, never actually had their boots on the ground, never stared an Islamist in the face, spent all his time at Yale and Oxford and in government pontificating about bad ideas like the Iran nuclear deal,\u201d Hegseth continued.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth went on to say that the government would try to work with the Taliban, suggesting that it would be as effective as a model U.N.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to have a strongly worded U.N. resolution signed by countries around the world, that will keep them in check,\u201d Hegseth mocked. \u201cIt\u2019s foolishness from foolish advisers who \u2014 live in a fantasyland about who the Islamists are. Of course they are our enemy and will consolidate their game, they just can\u2019t say it. Maybe they know it, maybe they don\u2019t. They are fools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely,\u201d McEnany agreed. \u201cJake Sullivan just not in touch with reality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News host Pete Hegseth mocked officials Wednesday for touting a United Nations resolution on the Taliban.Hegseth described them as \u201cfoolish advisers who are living in a fantasyland,\u201d arguing that &#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-706568","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\/706568","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=706568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706568\/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=706568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}