{"id":35275,"date":"2021-08-16T02:04:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T17:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/analysis-western-evacuation-from-afghanistan"},"modified":"2021-08-16T02:04:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T17:04:17","slug":"defeat-amid-anxious-bureaucracy-of-western-evacuation-from-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35275","title":{"rendered":"Defeat amid anxious bureaucracy of western evacuation from Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: The speed of the fall of the country to the Taliban leaves many questions unanswered<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/15\/afghanistan-taliban-close-in-on-kabul-as-last-government-stronghold-in-north-falls\">Taliban enter Kabul \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is what defeat looks like. Embassy burn bins blazing through day and night. The president fleeing. Helicopters and armoured SUVs shuttling foreigners to the airport, amid the anxious bureaucracy of evacuation with its queues and \u201cgo\u201d bags at the airport, the few items that you keep packed for when you have to flee.<\/p>\n<p>The speed of the fall of Afghanistan leaves many questions unanswered, not least whether the devastating humiliation for the Afghan government, its military forces and its western backers was in any way avoidable.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/analysis-western-evacuation-from-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: The speed of the fall of the country to the Taliban leaves many questions unansweredTaliban enter Kabul \u2013 live updatesThis is what defeat looks like. Embassy burn bins blazing through day and night. The president fleeing. Helicopters and armo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"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":[46,621,939,61,44,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ashraf-ghani","category-joe-biden","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","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\/35275","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\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35276,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35275\/revisions\/35276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}