{"id":712976,"date":"2021-09-03T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=712976"},"modified":"2021-09-03T09:36:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T13:36:03","slug":"appalled-and-literally-horrified-white-house-officials-say-biden-failed-afghanistan-withdrawal-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/appalled-and-literally-horrified-white-house-officials-say-biden-failed-afghanistan-withdrawal-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Appalled And Literally Horrified\u2019: White House Officials Say Biden Failed Afghanistan Withdrawal, Report Says"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fappalled-and-literally-horrified-white-house-officials-say-biden-failed-afghanistan-withdrawal-report-says%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=712976&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\/Joe-Biden-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>White House officials are calling President Joe Biden\u2019s withdrawal from Afghanistan a failure after U.S. forces almost certainly left hundreds of American citizens stranded in the Taliban-controlled country.<\/p>\n<p>The last U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan on Biden\u2019s orders on Monday, ending the U.S. military\u2019s two-decade presence in the country. The last troop plane departed after a weeks-long chaotic evacuation in which 13 U.S. service members were killed in a terror attack.<\/p>\n<p>The United States withdrew from the country on Monday in order to meet Biden\u2019s self-imposed deadline to end the war in Afghanistan by August 31. The U.S. met Biden\u2019s deadline, but left hundreds of American citizens and thousands of Afghans who aided the U.S. military throughout the war.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has stood by his decision to withdraw the U.S. from Afghanistan, and has defended his administration\u2019s handling of the withdrawal as an \u201cextraordinary success.\u201d Officials in the White House say that the U.S. withdrawal was an utter failure, however, despite Biden\u2019s claims. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/08\/31\/biden-blame-afghanistan-508204\">Politico<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p><em>Not everyone in the administration shared the commander in chief\u2019s confidence. \u201cI am absolutely appalled and literally horrified we left Americans there,\u201d one administration official told POLITICO. \u201cIt was a hostage rescue of thousands of Americans in the guise of a NEO [noncombatant evacuation operations], and we have failed that no-fail mission.\u201d Another White House official said that the mission isn\u2019t accomplished if they left Americans behind.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The United States\u2019 final weeks in Afghanistan were some of the most chaotic and deadly U.S. forces had experienced in the region in years. On Thursday, an Islamic State-affiliated terror group attacked Kabul\u2019s Hamid Karzai International Airport, the staging ground for the United States\u2019 evacuation effort, killing 13 U.S. service members.<\/p>\n<p>A suicide bomber with the terror group ISIS-K, a Taliban splinter group, detonated outside of one of the airport\u2019s main gates, killing members of the U.S. military along with dozens of Afghan civilians seeking a plane ride out of the country. The U.S. responded to the attack with two drone strikes, one on a purported planner from the terror group and another that reportedly hit a vehicle of Afghan civilians, killing 10 civilians including children.<\/p>\n<p>Since the U.S. left Afghanistan, the Biden administration has attempted to brand the withdrawal as a success despite leaving hundreds of American citizens behind, a possibility that Biden claimed would never become reality earlier in the evacuation effort. On Thursday, State Department spokesman Ned Price avoided answering reporters\u2019 questions on the Americans stranded in Afghanistan. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/screwed-lied-to-state-dept-avoids-questions-about-trapped-passport-holders-congressional-offices-flooded-with-calls-from-abandoned-americans\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"57\">\n<p><em>AP reporter Matt Lee confronted Price over the number of people the administration says are still in Afghanistan, asking Prince whether the \u201c100-200\u201d number used by Biden officials represents just American passport holders and whether there are efforts being made to extract legal permanent residents (LPRs) and those with Special Immigration Visas (SIVs). Price refused to answer directly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou must have some estimate of LPRs who are still there who want to get out, and if you don\u2019t, why not?\u201d Lee asked.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOver the past couple days \u2014 and, in fact, overnight \u2014 we have been in touch with everyone in that remaining 100 to 200, and we do have a little bit more fidelity on that group that we\u2019ve been able to garner over the past couple days,\u201d Price answered, avoiding the issue of LPRs and SIVs. \u201cWe have said that the number is likely closer to 100. Everything we have seen over the course of the past 48 to 72 hours indicates that is, in fact, the case. The number is likely closer to 100, perhaps considerably closer to 100.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m asking about green card holders,\u201d Lee fired back.\u201dWas there a decision made at some point to forget about those people?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBecause a lot of them feel like they frankly got screwed here and that they were lied to because they had been told by people on the task force \u2026 that we know where you are, we\u2019re not going to let you \u2014 we\u2019re not going to strand you, don\u2019t worry, stay tight \u2014 hold tight. And now what do they do? I mean, are you in touch also with the green card holders?\u201d he pressed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Price again refused to answer, relying instead on the Biden administration line that Americans, permanent residents, and SIVs must \u201cchoose\u201d to leave.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe have been consistent in that messaging that we will do during the course of the evacuation everything in our power, and space permitting, to bring them to safety on a U.S. military airplane,\u201d Price said, without addressing how many non-Americans are still awaiting evacuation. \u201cNow, of course, our commitment has not expired; that commitment endures. And now we remain committed to bringing them out of Afghanistan if they should choose to do so.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\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>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House officials are calling President Joe Biden\u2019s withdrawal from Afghanistan a failure after U.S. forces almost certainly left hundreds of American citizens stranded in the Taliban-controlled country.The last U.S. &#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-712976","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\/712976","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=712976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712976\/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=712976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}