{"id":35460,"date":"2021-08-18T18:27:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T09:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/18\/boris-johnson-defends-uk-afghanistan-policy-in-emergency-debate"},"modified":"2021-08-18T18:27:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T09:27:36","slug":"uk-troops-could-not-have-remained-in-afghanistan-pm-tells-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35460","title":{"rendered":"UK troops could not have remained in Afghanistan, PM tells MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM says military defence of Afghanistan was not possible in absence of \u2018American might\u2019 <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/18\/afghanistan-live-news-updates-taliban-kabul-airport-deaths-afghan-crisis\">Afghanistan live news: latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Boris Johnson has faced anger from MPs about the UK\u2019s failure to prepare for the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, as he made the case that Britain could not have stayed in the country \u201cwithout American might\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister said a military defence of Afghanistan by the west was not possible in the absence of Washington\u2019s support.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/18\/boris-johnson-defends-uk-afghanistan-policy-in-emergency-debate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM says military defence of Afghanistan was not possible in absence of \u2018American might\u2019 Afghanistan live news: latest updatesBoris Johnson has faced anger from MPs about the UK\u2019s failure to prepare for the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, as he made th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2391,"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":[46,531,950,319,1832,1622,938,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-boris-johnson","category-dominic-raab","category-foreign-policy","category-house-of-commons","category-keir-starmer","category-military","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","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\/35460","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\/2391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35461,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35460\/revisions\/35461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}