{"id":35447,"date":"2021-08-18T13:10:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T04:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/18\/bidens-over-the-horizon-counter-terrorism-strategy-comes-with-new-risks"},"modified":"2021-08-18T13:10:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T04:10:44","slug":"bidens-over-the-horizon-counter-terrorism-strategy-comes-with-new-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35447","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s \u2018over the horizon\u2019 counter-terrorism strategy comes with new risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: US efforts to neutralise the threat posed by extremist groups in Afghanistan targeting the west will not be easy<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden has said the US will maintain an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/08\/16\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-afghanistan\/\">\u201cover the horizon\u201d counter-terrorism <\/a>capability to neutralise the threat posed by Islamist extremist groups in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>With no troops on the ground, no intelligence-gathering operation in the country and no ally with shared borders, this kind of long-range effort to stop plots targeting the west will not be easy \u2013 and is made significantly harder by the range of the organisations based in territory now nominally under Taliban control.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/18\/bidens-over-the-horizon-counter-terrorism-strategy-comes-with-new-risks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: US efforts to neutralise the threat posed by extremist groups in Afghanistan targeting the west will not be easyJoe Biden has said the US will maintain an \u201cover the horizon\u201d counter-terrorism capability to neutralise the threat posed by Islam&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"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":[46,487,1854,61,44,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-al-qaida","category-biden-administration","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/35447","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\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35466,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35447\/revisions\/35466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}