{"id":35345,"date":"2021-08-17T02:04:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T17:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/swift-taliban-takeover-proves-us-and-uk-analysis-badly-wrong"},"modified":"2021-08-17T02:04:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T17:04:12","slug":"swift-taliban-takeover-proves-us-and-uk-analysis-badly-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35345","title":{"rendered":"Swift Taliban takeover proves US and UK analysis badly wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Joe Biden and Boris Johnson five weeks ago claimed Afghan government would not fall so easily<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/16\/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-evacuation-live-news-updates\">Desperate crowds at Kabul airport as Afghans try to escape Taliban \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Joe Biden could not have been clearer: a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was \u201cnot inevitable\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/joe-biden-taliban-takeover-afghanistan-video-1619559\">the US president said on 8 July<\/a>. Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, was equally confident \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/Commons\/2021-07-08\/debates\/CBB76087-2079-42F0-A58C-2DFEBED899F1\/details\">\u201cthere is no military path to victory for the Taliban\u201d<\/a> \u2013 he told MPs earlier that day, five weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>The president said he trusted \u201cthe capacity of the Afghan military\u201d, who were better trained, better equipped and \u201cmore competent in terms of conducting war\u201d. The prime minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/jul\/08\/boris-johnson-announces-end-uk-military-mission-afghanistan\">agreed<\/a>: \u201cI do not believe that the Taliban are guaranteed the kind of victory that we sometimes read about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/swift-taliban-takeover-proves-us-and-uk-analysis-badly-wrong\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Joe Biden and Boris Johnson five weeks ago claimed Afghan government would not fall so easilyDesperate crowds at Kabul airport as Afghans try to escape Taliban \u2013 latest updatesJoe Biden could not have been clearer: a Taliban takeover of Afgha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"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":[46,531,939,4,44,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-boris-johnson","category-joe-biden","category-politics","category-taliban","category-us-foreign-policy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35345","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\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35346,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35345\/revisions\/35346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}