Haley blasts 'embarrassing' Afghanistan withdrawal, despatched 'horrible picture' to world

Presidential candidate Nikki Haley slammed the Biden administration's orchestration of the U.S. navy's exit from Afghanistan in a current interview, recalling that “They had been making enjoyable of us. I imply, it set a horrible picture all through the world that we had, we had been utterly defeated."

Final week, the White Home launched a 12-page unclassified abstract of the after-action report on the Afghanistan withdrawal, and notably, President Joe Biden's administration blamed former President Trump's White Home for a lot of what occurred.

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Afterward, Nationwide Safety Council spokesman John Kirby claimed the exit from Afghanistan, throughout which 13 service members had been killed in a bombing on the Kabul Airport, was not chaotic. "For all this speak of chaos, I did not see it from my perch," he mentioned. "I simply do not buy the entire argument of chaos."

Critics have since criticized the administration for crafting a "fabulist narrative" and being disingenuous in claiming there was no chaos.

“I imply, the concept we left Afghanistan in the course of the evening, with out telling our allies, who stood shoulder to shoulder with us for many years, as a result of we requested them to be there,” Haley advised Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM Patriot. “I imply, take into consideration what that advised our allies. Extra importantly, take into consideration what that advised our enemies.”

The previous ambassador to the United Nations and former South Carolina governor claimed that "[Afghanistan] had made strides, particularly with ladies, on the truth that ladies may very well be educated, ladies had jobs, ladies had been making a lot progress."

"And now you look again, and so they have, you recognize, we’ve seen the truth that all of that has gone backwards," she defined. "And you recognize, there is no such thing as a non secular freedom there in any respect. There’s solely, you recognize, management and aggressiveness, and so they’ve taken it again.”

She additional famous how the U.S. left navy gear within the midst of the seemingly rushed withdrawal.

"We left all of our navy gear, and I keep in mind my husband a video, and he was a video of the Taliban and he’s saying, ‘They’re driving our Jeeps,’” she recalled. “After which he goes, ‘They’re holding our weapons.’ After which the worst half was, he was like, ‘They’re carrying our uniforms.’”

In line with Haley, it would not must do with supporting the exit from Afghanistan or not. “Lots of [servicemembers] thought we must always, however it’s how we acquired out."

"Not solely did we simply get out in probably the most embarrassing of circumstances, however then they misplaced 13 brothers and sisters within the course of,” she mentioned. “That was by no means the best way it was purported to be.”

Haley claimed that lots of the present worldwide points are knowledgeable by what occurred throughout that exit. "All of it goes again to the debacle we had in Afghanistan," she defined.

She gave examples of present points which were influenced by what the world noticed from the U.S. in 2021, corresponding to "the Russian invasion in Ukraine," "China sending over a spy balloon," and "Iran attempting to construct a bomb," amongst others.