{"id":33702,"date":"2021-07-04T20:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/04\/afghanistan-americas-longest-war-ends-amid-accusations-of-betrayal"},"modified":"2021-07-04T20:00:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T11:00:19","slug":"afghanistan-americas-longest-war-ends-amid-accusations-of-betrayal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33702","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: America\u2019s \u2018longest war\u2019 ends amid accusations of betrayal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Washington did not learn the lessons of  Vietnam and more death and suffering are inevitable<\/p>\n<p>The US war in Afghanistan was not supposed to be another Vietnam. \u201cI don\u2019t do quagmires,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jul\/01\/history-unlikely-to-forgive-donald-rumsfelds-iraq-warmongering\">Donald Rumsfeld<\/a>, the architect of the original US invasion in 2021, who died last week. In the end, the former US defence secretary did two quagmires, airily assuming Afghanistan was \u201cwon\u201d in the spring of 2003 when he sent American troops to fight in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>US combat troops were in Vietnam for eight years, but they have been in Afghanistan for 20. It has been America\u2019s longest war by far.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/04\/afghanistan-americas-longest-war-ends-amid-accusations-of-betrayal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Washington did not learn the lessons of  Vietnam and more death and suffering are inevitableThe US war in Afghanistan was not supposed to be another Vietnam. \u201cI don\u2019t do quagmires,\u201d said Donald Rumsfeld, the architect of the original US invas&#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":[46,939,61,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-joe-biden","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33702","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=33702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33723,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33702\/revisions\/33723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}