{"id":713851,"date":"2021-09-03T14:36:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T18:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=713851"},"modified":"2021-09-03T14:36:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T18:36:15","slug":"fmr-afghan-minister-it-was-clear-for-years-the-taliban-would-take-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fmr-afghan-minister-it-was-clear-for-years-the-taliban-would-take-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Fmr. Afghan minister: It was clear for years the Taliban would take over"},"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\">26<\/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%2Ffmr-afghan-minister-it-was-clear-for-years-the-taliban-would-take-over%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=713851&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 id=\"attachment_2509233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2509233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former President Ashraf Ghani (center) speaks during a joint press conference while former Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmay Rassol (right) and former Afghan Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal (left) look on in Kabul. (Photo by SHAH MARAI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 11:23 AM PT \u2013 Friday, September 3, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Afghanistan\u2019s former Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal said he was not surprised the Afghan government fell as quickly as it did. During an interview with the Associated Press, the former Afghan official stressed Afghanistan\u2019s government was not a western democracy, especially while it was under the rule of Ashraf Ghani.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say, \u201cparticularly in the past seven years under President Ghani, we also had a semi dictatorship, a monopolization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zakhilwal added the Afghan people had little to no allegiance to their government after years of rampant corruption and fake elections to keep Ghani as well as the country\u2019s other political elites in power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo there wasn\u2019t much of a democratic legitimacy in the system either and that was one reason why it was so easy for the Taliban to topple the government,\u201d he explained. \u201cNot only the people had distanced themselves from the government, not because of the democracy, but because of the lack of it, I would say.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1\/2: For all the critics &amp; facts-twisters: calling something \u201chistoric\u201d is not a celebration but rather stating a fact. The fact is that those pictures of the US\u2019 final departure from Kabul Airport last night were pictures of Taliban\u2018s winning the war (&amp; peace is yet to be won)\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr Omar Zakhilwal (@DrOmarZakhilwal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrOmarZakhilwal\/status\/1432687467858206726?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Zakhilwal said this meant none of the government\u2019s security or military forces wanted to fight for the Afghan government when it mattered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso our security, the national security forces didn\u2019t want to fight for President Ghani or the close circle that was governing,\u201d he stated. \u201cThat was the main problem then, I would say the democracy itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Considering these known challenges with Afghanistan\u2019s government, Joe Biden reportedly asked Ghani during a phone call in July to create the perception he was in control, despite knowing the Taliban takeover of the country was inevitable. In the days leading up to the Taliban takeover of Kabul, Biden also insisted on multiple occasions the Afghan government was up to the task of taking on the Taliban without U.S. support.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reporter: \u201cYour own Intel community has assessed that the Afghan government will likely collapse.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Biden: \u201cThat is not true.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Reporter: \u201cCan you please clarify what they told you about whether that will happen or not?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Biden: \u201cThat is not true. They did not reach that conclusion. \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Biden asked Afghanistan\u2019s President to lie in exchange for U.S. military support. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s quid pro quo.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarshaBlackburn\/status\/1433820053271687168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden has continued to deny the Intelligence Community knew the collapse was inevitable by saying there was no evidence for it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea that the Taliban would takeover was premised on the notion that somehow the 300,000 troops we trained and equipped was just going to collapse, they were just going to give up,\u201d he expressed. \u201cI don\u2019t think anybody anticipated that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Afghanistan\u2019s former finance minister said he didn\u2019t believe western involvement helped in the end at all. He added leaders including Biden continued to enable Ghani and his corrupt government.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/several-killed-in-queens-after-apartments-flood-due-to-hurricane-ida\/\">Several Killed In Queens After Apartments Flood Due To Hurricane Ida<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Ashraf Ghani (center) speaks during a joint press conference while former Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmay Rassol (right) and former Afghan Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal (left) look on in &#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-713851","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\/713851","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=713851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713851\/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=713851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}