{"id":29061,"date":"2021-02-28T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/feb\/28\/stay-go-delay-joe-biden-is-trapped-and-has-no-good-choices-in-afghanistan"},"modified":"2021-02-28T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T06:00:06","slug":"stay-go-delay-joe-biden-is-trapped-and-has-no-good-choices-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29061","title":{"rendered":"Stay, go, delay: Joe Biden is trapped and has no good choices in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president has inherited an unpopular war, and whatever he decides to do about it will be fraught with danger <\/p>\n<p>Of all the foreign hazards, snares, pitfalls and timebombs left behind by Donald Trump, Afghanistan is arguably the worst.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/16\/us\/politics\/biden-afghanistan-troop-withdrawal-taliban.html\" title=\"\"> Joe Biden must decide<\/a> in the coming days whether or not to abide by his predecessor\u2019s shabby \u201cpeace deal\u201d with the Taliban and withdraw all US troops by the end of April. It\u2019s a president-sized trap.<\/p>\n<p>The point being, there is no peace, no viable deal, and no easy answer. All three main options \u2013 leave now, delay the US and Nato departure by, say, six months, or stay indefinitely \u2013 are fraught with danger. Biden may be damned whatever he does. The war is a hole dug by others. But he\u2019s in it now \u2013 and it risks becoming his hole.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/feb\/28\/stay-go-delay-joe-biden-is-trapped-and-has-no-good-choices-in-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president has inherited an unpopular war, and whatever he decides to do about it will be fraught with danger Of all the foreign hazards, snares, pitfalls and timebombs left behind by Donald Trump, Afghanistan is arguably the worst. Joe Biden must d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,939,61,44,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-joe-biden","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29062,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29061\/revisions\/29062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}