{"id":35134,"date":"2021-08-13T16:47:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T07:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/13\/us-withdrawal-afghanistan-mistake-uk-defence-secretary-ben-wallace"},"modified":"2021-08-13T16:47:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T07:47:32","slug":"us-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-a-mistake-says-uk-defence-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35134","title":{"rendered":"US withdrawal from Afghanistan a mistake, says UK defence secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Wallace says troop pullout had given Taliban momentum and \u2018international community will probably pay the consequences\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The UK defence secretary has criticised the US decision to leave Afghanistan as a \u201cmistake\u201d that has handed the Taliban \u201cmomentum\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Sky News, Ben Wallace warned that \u201cthe international community will probably pay the consequences\u201d and said he was worried al-Qaida would regain a base in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/13\/us-withdrawal-afghanistan-mistake-uk-defence-secretary-ben-wallace\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Wallace says troop pullout had given Taliban momentum and \u2018international community will probably pay the consequences\u2019The UK defence secretary has criticised the US decision to leave Afghanistan as a \u201cmistake\u201d that has handed the Taliban \u201cmomentum\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"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":[46,1808,4,61,44,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ben-wallace","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","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\/35134","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\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35135,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35134\/revisions\/35135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}