{"id":35420,"date":"2021-08-17T21:47:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T12:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/aug\/17\/uk-politicians-decry-joe-bidens-defence-of-afghanistan-pullout"},"modified":"2021-08-17T21:47:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T12:47:05","slug":"uk-politicians-decry-joe-bidens-defence-of-afghanistan-pullout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35420","title":{"rendered":"UK politicians decry Joe Biden\u2019s defence of Afghanistan pullout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Tory and Labour MPs united in their criticism of US president\u2019s approach to Afghan crisis<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/17\/afghanistan-live-news-us-says-kabul-airport-reopens-as-biden-defends-withdrawal\">Afghanistan crisis: live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Senior British politicians have called on the government to repudiate Joe Biden\u2019s comments on Afghanistan, saying the UK should have the courage to criticise the manner of the US withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>A defiant US president insisted on Monday night that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/16\/afghanistan-withdrawal-joe-biden-crisis\">he stood squarely behind<\/a> his decision to pull forces out of Afghanistan rapidly. \u201cAfter 20 years, I\u2019ve learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw US forces. That\u2019s why we\u2019re still there. We were clear-eyed about the risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/aug\/17\/uk-politicians-decry-joe-bidens-defence-of-afghanistan-pullout\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Tory and Labour MPs united in their criticism of US president\u2019s approach to Afghan crisisAfghanistan crisis: live updatesSenior British politicians have called on the government to repudiate Joe Biden\u2019s comments on Afghanistan, saying the UK sho&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2409,"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":[46,1854,904,319,902,4,61,44,52,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-biden-administration","category-conservatives","category-foreign-policy","category-labour","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/35420","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\/2409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35421,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35420\/revisions\/35421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}