Blinken pressured to freeze Afghanistan aid after revelation nearly $300M could have gone to Taliban
First appearance on FOXSecretary of State Antony Blinken has faced calls to freeze aid to Afghanistan after it emerged that it may be being directed to the Taliban. A recent report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the government agency that monitors U.S. aid to Afghanistan, concluded that two of five bureaus […]
CNN cites Sharia law in legal motion for defamation suit over Afghanistan withdrawal reporting
CNN, in a lawsuit over its reporting on the 2021 withdrawal, has alleged that the security consulting firm was actually violating Sharia law when evacuating people from Afghanistan. A Florida court ruled in June that Zachary Young and his company, Nemex Enterprises, had presented enough evidence to move forward with a defamation lawsuit against CNN. […]
Don’t expect too much from the Afghanistan War Commission
Last week, a bipartisan Afghanistan War Committee At its first public hearing since its establishment in 2021, foreign policy thought leaders testified about the origins of the conflict and the importance of reexamination. It was a solemn and noble undertaking, based on George Santayana’s famous dictum that “those who cannot remember the past are doomed […]
6 Reasons China, Not Just Taliban, Benefits as US Exits From Afghanistan
Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes The U.S. abandonment of Afghanistan presents an opportunity for China, but one that the communist regime likely will take cautiously. Beyond Afghanistan, a major Chinese propaganda organ already has used the U.S. defeat there to warn Taiwan (which the communist regime claims as part of China) and potentially other countries. […]
RNC: Gold Star Parents Remind Biden Of 13 Service Members Who Died Under ‘Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal’
Members of Gold Star families carry photos of fallen soldiers on stage during the third day of the Republican National Convention at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 17, 2024. Delegates, politicians and Republican Party staunch supporters gathered in Milwaukee for the annual convention, which concluded with former President Donald Trump accepting the party’s presidential […]
RNC: Gold Star Parents Remind Biden Of All 13 Service Members Who Died Under ‘Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal’
Members of Gold Star families carry photos of fallen soldiers on stage during the third day of the Republican National Convention at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 17, 2024. Delegates, politicians and Republican Party staunch supporters gathered in Milwaukee for the annual convention, which concluded with former President Donald Trump accepting the party’s presidential […]
Gold Star parents remind Biden of all 13 service members who died in Afghanistan
Two Gold Star parents reminded President Biden at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night of the 13 soldiers who died in Afghanistan during the U.S. military’s disastrous withdrawal. “Our son, Corporal Hunter Lopez, whose name Joe Biden refuses to say, was killed on Aug. 26, 2021,” Alicia Lopez said. “He died during Joe Biden’s […]
Republicans at RNC lean into attacks on Biden over Afghanistan withdrawal
Speakers at the Republican National Convention criticized President Biden’s handling of the messy withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Kabul airport bombing that killed 13 service members. The RNC showed video interviews with several Gold Star families who lost loved ones in the 2021 bombing, then invited several of them onto the stage to hold up […]
3 Years After US Withdrawal, Afghanistan Looks As Bad As It Did Pre-War
As the Biden administration approaches the third anniversary of its withdrawal from Afghanistan, the region is returning to some semblance of what it was before the 9/11 attacks and two decades of U.S. involvement, according to multiple reports and former U.S. officials who spoke to the Daily Caller News Foundation. The US has lost thousands […]
Biden campaign launches vets coalition after prez’s blunder about American deaths in Afghanistan
GUADALUPE, Ariz. — Arizona is home to roughly half a million military veterans, making them a key demographic in determining whether President Donald Trump or Joe Biden becomes president. Biden won the state by just 10,457 votes in the 2020 election. So the Biden-Harris campaign launched a coalition of veterans and military families this week […]