{"id":35359,"date":"2021-08-17T07:59:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T22:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/16\/afghanistan-withdrawal-joe-biden-crisis"},"modified":"2021-08-17T07:59:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T22:59:19","slug":"defiant-biden-stands-squarely-behind-decision-to-withdraw-from-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35359","title":{"rendered":"Defiant Biden stands \u2018squarely behind\u2019 decision to withdraw from Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President shifts blame to his predecessor, Donald Trump, and the unwillingness of Afghan forces to fight the Taliban<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/series\/us-politics-live\/latest\">US politics \u2013 live coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A defiant Joe Biden has insisted that he stands \u201csquarely behind\u201d his decision to pull US forces rapidly out of Afghanistan while attempting to shift blame for events unfolding there to his predecessor, Donald Trump, and the unwillingness of Afghan forces to fight the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is facing the biggest crisis of his presidency after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/16\/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-evacuation-live-news-updates\">the stunning fall of Afghanistan to the extremist insurgent force<\/a> caught his administration flat-footed and raised fears of a humanitarian catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/16\/afghanistan-withdrawal-joe-biden-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President shifts blame to his predecessor, Donald Trump, and the unwillingness of Afghan forces to fight the TalibanUS politics \u2013 live coverageA defiant Joe Biden has insisted that he stands \u201csquarely behind\u201d his decision to pull US forces rapidly out &#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":[46,1854,939,61,473,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-biden-administration","category-joe-biden","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-us-politics","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\/35359","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=35359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35360,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35359\/revisions\/35360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}