{"id":798963,"date":"2021-09-21T15:15:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T19:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=798963"},"modified":"2021-09-21T15:15:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T19:15:53","slug":"biden-claims-u-s-has-turned-the-page-on-afghanistan-in-u-n-speech-even-as-americans-remain-stranded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-claims-u-s-has-turned-the-page-on-afghanistan-in-u-n-speech-even-as-americans-remain-stranded\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Claims U.S. Has \u2018Turned The Page\u2019 On Afghanistan In U.N. Speech, Even As Americans Remain Stranded"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fbiden-claims-u-s-has-turned-the-page-on-afghanistan-in-u-n-speech-even-as-americans-remain-stranded%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=798963&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\/GettyImages-1235404126.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden claimed, Tuesday, in a speech to the United Nations, that the United States has \u201cturned the page\u201d on the war in Afghanistan, even as dozens \u2014 and perhaps hundreds of Americans remain trapped behind enemy lines with the State Department unable to gain leverage over the Taliban to ensure evacuations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe stand, in my view, at an inflection point in history. And I\u2019m here today to share with you how the U.S. plans to stand with partners and allies in answering these questions,\u201d Biden said, apparently directly addressing concerns from coalition partners raised following his administration\u2019s decision to leave Afghanistan on a self-imposed timeline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI stand here today for the first time in 20 years with the United States not at war. We\u2019ve turned the page,\u201d Biden claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwenty years of conflict in Afghanistan, and as we close this period of relentless war we\u2019re opening a new era of relentless diplomacy,\u201d Biden added. \u201cOf using the power of our development aid to invest in new ways of lifting people up around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government, however, is having difficulty \u201clifting up\u201d Americans who are stranded in Afghanistan. Although the State Department initially claimed that between 100 and 200 Americans who wanted to leave the country remained following the American withdrawal, a more recent report noted that around 100 Americans still remain, even as around 100 have been rescued.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty more Americans left on a commercial flight Saturday, per a State Department spokesman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cState Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement on Saturday that a Qatar Airways charter flight departed Kabul on Friday with 28 U.S. citizens and seven lawful permanent residents,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/572881-nearly-30-more-americans-evacuated-from-afghanistan\">according to The Hill<\/a>. \u201c<\/span><span class=\"s1\">The announcement comes as the U.S. seeks to evacuate approximately 100 remaining American citizens who&nbsp;stayed in Afghanistan following the U.S.\u2019s full withdrawal of troops on Aug. 31.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is not clear whether the State Department is keeping an accurate count of the remaining American citizens, or whether they are working independently to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies. <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/572881-nearly-30-more-americans-evacuated-from-afghanistan\">As the Daily Wire noted last week,<\/a> the State Department claimed it had \u201cpulled all the levers\u201d but that flights with American passengers remained on the ground at Mazar-i-Sharif (MAZ) airport.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative radio host Glenn Beck <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glennbeck.com\/glenn-beck-update-afghanistan-rescue\">announced Monday<\/a> that his non-governmental organization and several partner NGOs were working with Pakistan\u2019s government to negotiate with the Taliban and secure those flights\u2019 release, as well as to secure a landing site. Beck was clear, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glennbeck.com\/glenn-beck-update-afghanistan-rescue\">in a radio update<\/a>, that Americans are among those waiting to be evacuated from MAZ, calling the effort both \u201cmiraculous and horrendous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are also thousands of coalition allies, green card holders, and Afghans with special immigrant visas still in Afghanistan with no timeline for evacuation.<\/p>\n<p>According to National Review\u2019s Jim Geraghty, the situation is dire for those left behind.<\/p>\n<p>A source told Geraghty at least one particular evacuee is \u201cstill getting the run around from State on visa interviews for wife and children. There is still no system in place. It\u2019s as if State has given up developing a reasonable alternative, and the only thing they have to offer is \u2018come see us if you can.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>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 <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden claimed, Tuesday, in a speech to the United Nations, that the United States has \u201cturned the page\u201d on the war in Afghanistan, even as dozens \u2014 and &#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-798963","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\/798963","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=798963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798963\/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=798963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}