{"id":35235,"date":"2021-08-15T14:15:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T05:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/aug\/15\/afghanistan-will-be-seen-as-joe-bidens-defeat-and-it-may-come-back-to-haunt-him"},"modified":"2021-08-15T14:15:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T05:15:04","slug":"afghanistan-will-be-seen-as-joe-bidens-defeat-and-it-may-come-back-to-haunt-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35235","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan will be seen as Joe Biden\u2019s defeat. And it may come back to haunt him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American public will not be in a forgiving mood if al-Qaida rises again following US withdrawal and the Taliban advance<\/p>\n<p>What will it take for Joe Biden to admit he is disastrously wrong about Afghanistan? The US leader struck a defiant pose last week. Sounding like a slightly desperate Olympics coach, he told Afghans it was their country. If they want it, they have to fight for it. In American politics-speak, this is called tough love. Without the love.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has more hands-on foreign policy experience than any president since George HW Bush. That doesn\u2019t mean he knows what he\u2019s doing. Opinion polls suggest his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/jun\/20\/catastrophe-stalks-afghanistan-as-the-us-and-uk-dash-for-the-exit\" title=\"\">abrupt Afghan withdrawal<\/a> has majority public support. That doesn\u2019t mean Americans will remain indifferent as the carnage and misery mount.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/aug\/15\/afghanistan-will-be-seen-as-joe-bidens-defeat-and-it-may-come-back-to-haunt-him\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American public will not be in a forgiving mood if al-Qaida rises again following US withdrawal and the Taliban advanceWhat will it take for Joe Biden to admit he is disastrously wrong about Afghanistan? The US leader struck a defiant pose last wee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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":[46,487,939,61,44,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-al-qaida","category-joe-biden","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/35235","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35236,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35235\/revisions\/35236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}