{"id":35671,"date":"2021-08-22T06:30:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T21:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/21\/tony-blair-western-troops-must-stay-afghanistan-until-eligible-evacuated"},"modified":"2021-08-22T17:58:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T08:58:36","slug":"tony-blair-withdrawal-will-have-every-jihadist-group-cheering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35671","title":{"rendered":"Tony Blair condemns \u2018tragic, dangerous\u2019 US withdrawal from Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former prime minister says jihadist groups will be \u2018cheering\u2019 return of the Taliban<\/p>\n<p>Tony Blair has warned that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/the-fall-of-kabul-a-20-year-mission-collapses-in-a-single-day\">return of the Taliban <\/a>will see \u201cevery jihadist group round the world cheering\u201d, as he said that there was now a moral obligation for Western troops to stay until all those eligible are evacuated from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>In a lengthy essay published on his website last night, the former prime minister who ordered British troops to join the US-led invasion said that the hasty withdrawal had been a \u201ctragic, dangerous, unnecessary\u201d decision that undermined the West\u2019s aims. He accused US President Biden of being motivated by \u201can imbecilic political slogan about ending \u2018the forever wars\u2019, as if our engagement in 2021 was remotely comparable to our commitment 20 or even 10 years ago\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/21\/tony-blair-western-troops-must-stay-afghanistan-until-eligible-evacuated\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former prime minister says jihadist groups will be \u2018cheering\u2019 return of the TalibanTony Blair has warned that the return of the Taliban will see \u201cevery jihadist group round the world cheering\u201d, as he said that there was now a moral obligation for Weste&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2444,"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":[46,939,44,2292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-joe-biden","category-taliban","category-tony-blair"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35671","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\/2444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35676,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35671\/revisions\/35676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}