{"id":30905,"date":"2021-04-14T14:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T05:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/14\/damned-either-way-biden-opts-out-of-afghanistan-as-us-tires-of-forever-wars"},"modified":"2021-04-14T14:00:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T05:00:31","slug":"damned-either-way-biden-opts-out-of-afghanistan-as-us-tires-of-forever-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30905","title":{"rendered":"Damned either way, Biden opts out of Afghanistan as US tires of \u2018forever wars\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Analysis:<\/strong> Despite warnings not enough has been done to stablise the country, the president has decided to set aside the rule \u2018if you break it, you fix it\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden has decided that 20 years is enough for America\u2019s longest war, and has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/apr\/13\/biden-withdraw-troops-afghanistan-september-11\">ordered the remaining troops out<\/a> no matter what happens between now and September.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s withdrawal is one area of continuity with his predecessor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/oct\/08\/donald-trump-afghanistan-us-troops-taliban\">although unlike Donald Trump<\/a>, this administration consulted the Afghans, US allies and its own agencies before announcing the decision. But both presidents were responding to a national weariness of \u201cforever wars\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/14\/damned-either-way-biden-opts-out-of-afghanistan-as-us-tires-of-forever-wars\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Despite warnings not enough has been done to stablise the country, the president has decided to set aside the rule \u2018if you break it, you fix it\u2019Joe Biden has decided that 20 years is enough for America\u2019s longest war, and has ordered the remai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"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":[46,939,61,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-joe-biden","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-us-politics","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\/30905","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\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30906,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30905\/revisions\/30906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}