{"id":35277,"date":"2021-08-16T01:53:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T16:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/15\/antony-blinken-us-mission-afghanistan-saigon"},"modified":"2021-08-16T01:53:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T16:53:01","slug":"this-is-manifestly-not-saigon-blinken-defends-us-mission-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35277","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This is manifestly not Saigon\u2019: Blinken defends US mission in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US secretary of state rejects parallels between chaotic scenes unfolding in Kabul and the humiliating fall of Saigon in 1975<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s top diplomat appeared on political TV shows on Sunday to defend the US\u2019s mission in Afghanistan and attempt to hold back a tide of comparisons between the chaotic scenes unfolding in Kabul, where the Taliban is now poised to retake power, and the humiliating fall of Saigon 46 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is manifestly not Saigon,\u201d the US secretary of state Antony Blinken told ABC\u2019s This Week. \u201cWe went into Afghanistan 20 years ago with one mission in mind, and that was to deal with the people who attacked us on 9\/11, and that mission has been successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/15\/antony-blinken-us-mission-afghanistan-saigon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US secretary of state rejects parallels between chaotic scenes unfolding in Kabul and the humiliating fall of Saigon in 1975America\u2019s top diplomat appeared on political TV shows on Sunday to defend the US\u2019s mission in Afghanistan and attempt to hold ba&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2393,"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":[46,2003,1854,61,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-antony-blinken","category-biden-administration","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-us-politics","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\/35277","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\/2393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35278,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35277\/revisions\/35278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}