{"id":28003,"date":"2011-12-20T15:08:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T19:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28003"},"modified":"2011-12-20T15:18:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T19:18:50","slug":"white-house-bidens-taliban-statement-taken-out-of-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28003","title":{"rendered":"White House: Biden’s Taliban statement taken out of context"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Aunty Brat<\/a> who messaged me on Facebook about this Fox News<\/a> article which reports that Biden comment about the Taliban not being the enemy<\/a> was taken out of context. Well, and yeah, but they don’t bother to give us any context except a faulty interpretation of recent history;<\/p>\n

“It is a simple fact that we went into Afghanistan because of the attack on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. We are there now to ultimately defeat Al Qaeda, to stabilize Afghanistan and stabilize it in part so that Al Qaeda or other terrorists who have as their aim attacks on the United States cannot establish a foothold again in that country,” Carney continued.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Um, the simple fact is that we did indeed strike at Afghanistan because of al Qaeda’s attack on US soil, but the first thing we did was provide support to the Northern Alliance so they could toss the Taliban out and the majority of the fighting has been against remaining elements of Taliban and the Haqqanis. The Taliban has been targeting Afghan civilians with most of their terror attacks, <\/p>\n

In fact, before the attack on September 11th, 2001, al Qaeda targeted the Taliban’s main enemy Ahmad Shah Massoud who commanded the Northern Alliance in an assassination.<\/p>\n

Preventing a resurgence of al Qaeda in Afghanistan means destroying the Taliban. How we do that without recognizing that they’re our enemy is beyond me and probably beyond anyone who puts a moment’s thought into the subject. I guess that would leave Bite Me out of a rational discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Aunty Brat who messaged me on Facebook about this Fox News article which reports … White House: Biden’s Taliban statement taken out of context<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}