{"id":35138,"date":"2021-08-13T14:25:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T05:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/13\/afghanistan-likened-to-fall-of-saigon-as-us-and-uk-send-troops-to-aid-evacuation"},"modified":"2021-08-13T14:25:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T05:25:06","slug":"afghanistan-likened-to-fall-of-saigon-as-officials-confirm-taliban-take-kandahar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35138","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan likened to fall of Saigon as officials confirm Taliban take Kandahar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Lashkar Gah is also captured, US senator Mitch McConnell says exit could be \u2018sequel\u2019 to Vietnam humiliation<\/p>\n<p>Mitch McConnell has warned that America\u2019s retreat from Afghanistan risks a replay of the nation\u2019s humiliating withdrawal from Saigon at the end of the Vietnam conflict in 1975.<\/p>\n<p>As thousands of American soldiers were ordered back to Kabul to evacuate embassy staff amid a rapid advance by the Taliban, US Senate minority leader McConnell said the US was \u201ccareening toward a massive, predictable, and preventable disaster\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/13\/afghanistan-likened-to-fall-of-saigon-as-us-and-uk-send-troops-to-aid-evacuation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Lashkar Gah is also captured, US senator Mitch McConnell says exit could be \u2018sequel\u2019 to Vietnam humiliationMitch McConnell has warned that America\u2019s retreat from Afghanistan risks a replay of the nation\u2019s humiliating withdrawal from Saigon at the en&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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":[46,1854,45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-biden-administration","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35138","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35139,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35138\/revisions\/35139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}