{"id":33878,"date":"2021-07-09T05:30:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T20:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/jul\/08\/biden-says-no-mission-accomplished-moment-as-us-troops-withdraw-from-afghanistan-video"},"modified":"2021-07-09T05:30:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T20:30:43","slug":"biden-says-no-mission-accomplished-moment-as-us-troops-withdraw-from-afghanistan-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33878","title":{"rendered":"Biden says no \u2018mission accomplished moment\u2019 as US troops withdraw from Afghanistan \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden has said the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan after 20 years of war will conclude on 31 August and added there will be no \u2018mission accomplished\u2019 moment to celebrate. \u2018We did not go to Afghanistan to nation-build,\u2019 the US president said. \u2019It is the right and the responsibility of the Afghan people alone to decide their future and how they want to run their country.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>His remarks come as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/07\/taliban-attack-city-as-us-ramps-up-afghanistan-withdrawal\">Taliban makes advances in the country<\/a>, which some senior Afghan officials have blamed on the abrupt departure of US troops<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2021\/jul\/08\/joe-biden-us-troop-withdrawal-afghanistan-covid-coronavirus-politics-latest\">US politics \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/07\/armed-afghan-women-take-to-streets-in-show-of-defiance-against-taliban\">Armed Afghan women take to streets in show of defiance against Taliban<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/jul\/08\/biden-says-no-mission-accomplished-moment-as-us-troops-withdraw-from-afghanistan-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden has said the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan after 20 years of war will conclude on 31 August and added there will be no \u2018mission accomplished\u2019 moment to celebrate. \u2018We did not go to Afghanistan to nation-build,\u2019 the US president sai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[46,939,61,473],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-joe-biden","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-military"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33878","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33879,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33878\/revisions\/33879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}