{"id":420,"date":"2021-09-14T12:23:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T12:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=420"},"modified":"2021-09-14T12:25:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T12:25:58","slug":"us-lawmakers-term-hasty-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-as-humiliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/asia\/afghanistan\/us-lawmakers-term-hasty-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-as-humiliation\/","title":{"rendered":"US lawmakers term hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan as humiliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Blinken depends his government decision says two choices on table to continues war or ending it<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ISLAMABAD, September 14, (AsiaFreePress): US lawmakers slammed President Biden administration for humiliation in Afghanistan as Taliban swiftly captured capital Kabul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Washington Post report, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken clashed with Republican lawmakers on Monday over the Biden administration\u2019s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in his first hearing before Congress since the Taliban\u2019s takeover of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI never thought in my lifetime that I would see an unconditional surrender to the Taliban,\u201d Washington Post quoted the Rep. Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe American people don\u2019t like to lose, especially to the terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe majority of Americans wanted to leave Afghanistan, but not like this,\u201d added Rep. Steve Chabot remarked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Blinken depended Biden administration decision to withdraw its forces before the deadline of August 31, and said there were two choices to continue war or ending it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden immediately faced the choice between ending the war or escalating it,\u201d said Blinken, noting President Donald Trump\u2019s 2020 agreement with the Taliban to withdraw U.S. forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Republicans are criticising Biden for hasty withdrawal despite the agreement was signed by President Donald Trump in February 2020 in Doha, capital of Qatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blinken also informed the committee that Washington has pledge of $64 million as assistance for Afghanistan but the aid will directly go to the NGOs and UN aid agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday, the U.N. donors pledge more than $1 billion for Afghanistan during a conference in Geneva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Brown University latest report, US spent $290 million every day during its history longest 20 year war in Afghanistan.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blinken depends his government decision says two choices on table to continues war or ending it ISLAMABAD, September 14, (AsiaFreePress): US lawmakers slammed President Biden administration for humiliation in Afghanistan as Taliban swiftly captured capital Kabul. According to the Washington Post report, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken clashed with Republican lawmakers on Monday over [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[58,74],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","tag-afghanistan","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}