{"id":35191,"date":"2021-08-14T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/14\/joe-biden-afghanistan-crisis-blame-game"},"modified":"2021-08-14T15:00:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T06:00:31","slug":"biden-in-an-impossible-bind-as-afghanistan-blame-game-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35191","title":{"rendered":"Biden in an impossible bind as Afghanistan blame game begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president has been condemned by Republicans as the Taliban advance \u2013 but the roots of the crisis date back years<\/p>\n<p>The words of political leaders can come back to haunt them. \u201cNone whatsoever, zero,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/07\/08\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-drawdown-of-u-s-forces-in-afghanistan\/\">Joe Biden said last month<\/a> when asked if he saw any parallels between the US withdrawals from Vietnam and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Taliban is not the North Vietnamese army. They\u2019re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There\u2019s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of the embassy of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/14\/joe-biden-afghanistan-crisis-blame-game\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president has been condemned by Republicans as the Taliban advance \u2013 but the roots of the crisis date back yearsThe words of political leaders can come back to haunt them. \u201cNone whatsoever, zero,\u201d Joe Biden said last month when asked if he saw any &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1491,"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":[46,1854,939,61,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-biden-administration","category-joe-biden","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/35191","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\/1491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35192,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35191\/revisions\/35192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}