{"id":32701,"date":"2021-06-02T02:30:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T17:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jun\/02\/how-the-good-war-went-bad-elite-soldiers-from-australia-uk-and-us-face-a-reckoning"},"modified":"2021-06-02T02:30:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T17:30:18","slug":"how-the-good-war-went-bad-elite-soldiers-from-australia-uk-and-us-face-a-reckoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32701","title":{"rendered":"How the \u2018good war\u2019 went bad: elite soldiers from Australia, UK and US face a reckoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As coalition troops prepare to withdraw from Afghanistan after 20 years, former soldiers, key officers and the public are asking what went wrong with some special forces <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever <em>we<\/em> do \u2026 ,\u201d one Australian special forces soldier said of his service in Afghanistan,<strong> <\/strong>\u201cI can tell you the Brits and the US are far, far worse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve watched our young guys stand by and hero worship what they were doing, salivating at how the US were torturing people. You just stand there and roll your eyes and wait for it to end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jun\/02\/how-the-good-war-went-bad-elite-soldiers-from-australia-uk-and-us-face-a-reckoning\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As coalition troops prepare to withdraw from Afghanistan after 20 years, former soldiers, key officers and the public are asking what went wrong with some special forces \u201cWhatever we do \u2026 ,\u201d one Australian special forces soldier said of his service in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"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":[46,43,1585,938,61,52,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-australian-military","category-military","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-us-military","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\/32701","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32702,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32701\/revisions\/32702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}