{"id":714618,"date":"2021-09-03T19:05:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T23:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=714618"},"modified":"2021-09-03T19:05:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T23:05:26","slug":"america-is-back-bidens-boasts-fall-apart-under-the-weight-of-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/america-is-back-bidens-boasts-fall-apart-under-the-weight-of-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018America Is Back\u2019: Biden\u2019s Boasts Fall Apart Under The Weight Of Afghanistan"},"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\">24<\/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%2Famerica-is-back-bidens-boasts-fall-apart-under-the-weight-of-afghanistan%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=714618&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--><p>\u201cAmerica is back\u201d was President Joe Biden\u2019s foreign policy mantra as he took office, but his disastrous handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan has shaken U.S. allies and given a green light to China on the global stage.<\/p>\n<p>When Biden introduced his foreign policy team, including Secretary of State Tony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan, he stated that world leaders had called him and said they \u201clook forward\u201d to America <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dailycaller\/status\/1362820336878821381\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resuming its traditional leadership role<\/a> in global politics. They said their strategy centered around strengthening global alliances and building new ones to counter threats like China and Russia. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/16\/biden-approach-towards-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Biden Expected To Be Tougher On China Than Previous Administrations)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.7702702702703\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">President-elect Joe Biden: \u201cIn calls from world leaders\u2026I\u2019ve been struck by how much they\u2019re looking forward to the United States reasserting its historic role as a global leader.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RtneOGqkOG\">https:\/\/t.co\/RtneOGqkOG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KSGn8K9RBK\">pic.twitter.com\/KSGn8K9RBK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABCPolitics\/status\/1331299657964810240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe United States, we\u2019ll do our part. We\u2019ll stand with you. We\u2019ll fight for our shared values. We\u2019ll meet the challenges of this new moment in history,\u201d Biden told European leaders in February.<\/p>\n<p>While global leaders were initially complimentary of Biden\u2019s administration, many of those same allies have criticized America\u2019s hasty retreat from Afghanistan. Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair went so far as to call Biden\u2019s handling of the withdrawal \u201cimbecilic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">\u201cThe abandonment of Afghanistan and its people is tragic, dangerous, unnecessary, not in their interests and not in ours,\u201d Blair, who led the U.K. from 1997-2007, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-europe-middle-east-tony-blair-4ee456473a928eb97163fc080c40ed31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said in August<\/a>. \u201cWe didn\u2019t need to withdraw. We chose to do it. We did it in obedience to an imbecilic political slogan about ending \u2018the forever wars.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">\u201cThe world is now uncertain of where the West stands because it is so obvious that the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan in this way was driven not by grand strategy but by politics,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7274935\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"39\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7274935\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7274935\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1234971639-scaled-1.jpeg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1234971639-scaled-1.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1234971639-180x120.jpeg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1234971639-620x413-1.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1234971639-768x512-1.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1234971639-1536x1024-1.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1234971639-2048x1365-1.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7274935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Refugees receive instructions from a US navy soldier as they disembark from a US air force aircraft after an evacuation flight from Kabul at the Rota naval base in Rota, southern Spain, on August 31, 2021. \u2013 Spain has agreed to host up to 4,000 Afghans who will be airlifted by the United States to airbases in Rota and Moron de la Frontera in southern Spain. (Photo by CRISTINA QUICLER \/ AFP) (Photo by CRISTINA QUICLER\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Blair was not alone in offering harsh words for Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI say this with a heavy heart and with horror over what is happening, but the early withdrawal was a serious and far-reaching miscalculation by the current administration,\u201d Norbert R\u00f6ttgen, chairman of the German parliament\u2019s foreign relations committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/europe-reacts-bidens-afghanistan-withdrawal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said in August<\/a>. \u201cThis does fundamental damage to the political and moral credibility of the West.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNaturally this has damaged American credibility, along with that of the intelligence services and of the military,\u201d R\u00fcdiger Lentz, the former head of the Aspen Institute in Berlin, told Politico. \u201cOne can only hope that the damage to America\u2019s foreign policy leadership can be quickly contained.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel shied away from outright criticizing Biden, but described the withdrawal as a \u201cbitter event\u201d for women and girls now stranded in Afghanistan under Taliban rule.<\/p>\n<p>Even as the confidence of U.S. allies has been shaken, the confidence of our adversaries has only grown. Chinese propaganda outlets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/news\/3489369\/china-taliban-takeover-smoother-presidential-transition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gleefully mocked the U.S. withdrawal<\/a>, ironically accusing the U.S. of abandoning human rights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/10\/biden-china-pentagon-lloyd-austin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinese Communist Party<\/a> (CCP) leaders used the withdrawal as an opportunity to demoralize Taiwan, arguing that the independent nation would face the same abandonment by the U.S. if China chose to invade.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Biden administration has rebuked China\u2019s comparison of Afghanistan to Taiwan, arguing our commitment to the country \u201cremains as strong as it\u2019s ever been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to Taiwan, it is a fundamentally different question, in a different context,\u201d Sullivan told reporters in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAmerica is back\u201d was President Joe Biden\u2019s foreign policy mantra as he took office, but his disastrous handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan has shaken U.S. allies and given a &#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-714618","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\/714618","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=714618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714618\/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=714618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}