{"id":35125,"date":"2021-08-13T04:37:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T19:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/12\/afghanistan-us-military-analysis-biden-rumsfeld"},"modified":"2021-08-13T04:37:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T19:37:38","slug":"us-deserves-big-share-of-blame-for-afghanistan-military-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35125","title":{"rendered":"US deserves big share of blame for Afghanistan military disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: White House accused of unfairly pointing finger at Afghan military after decades of mismanaging war effort<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/06\/taliban-captures-provincial-capital-in-afghanistan\">one<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/07\/taliban-seize-second-afghan-provincial-capital-in-two-days-sheberghan\">provincial<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/08\/taliban-seize-symbolic-victory-with-capture-of-kunduz\">capital<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/09\/taliban-capture-aibak-sixth-provincial-capital-northern-afghanistan\">after<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/10\/taliban-fighters-capture-afghan-city-at-strategic-junction-north-of-kabul\">another<\/a> has fallen to the Taliban, the message from Washington to the Afghans facing the onslaught has been that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/10\/us-says-afghans-must-defend-their-country-as-taliban-takes-more-ground\">their survival is in their own hands<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve got to fight for themselves, fight for their nation,\u201d Joe Biden said. Jen Psaki, the White House spokeswoman, added: \u201cThey have what they need. What they need to determine is whether they have the political will to fight back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/12\/afghanistan-us-military-analysis-biden-rumsfeld\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: White House accused of unfairly pointing finger at Afghan military after decades of mismanaging war effortAs one provincial capital after another has fallen to the Taliban, the message from Washington to the Afghans facing the onslaught has b&#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":[46,1854,939,61,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-biden-administration","category-joe-biden","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-military","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\/35125","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=35125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35126,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35125\/revisions\/35126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}