{"id":35739,"date":"2021-08-23T06:37:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T21:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/22\/biden-afghanistan-evacuations-would-always-have-been-hard-and-painful"},"modified":"2021-08-23T06:37:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T21:37:29","slug":"biden-afghanistan-evacuations-would-always-have-been-hard-and-painful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35739","title":{"rendered":"Biden: Afghanistan evacuations would always have been \u2018hard and painful\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President defends US exit but makes changes to airlift effort at Kabul airport after criticism over deaths and chaotic scenes <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/22\/taliban-seek-to-assert-control-around-kabul-airport-as-death-toll-rises\">Civil war \u2018unavoidable\u2019 if Taliban won\u2019t talk \u2013 opposition leader<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The evacuation of thousands of Americans and their Afghan allies from Kabul would have been \u201chard and painful no matter when it started or when we began\u201d, Joe Biden insisted on Sunday, amid fierce criticism of his administration\u2019s handling of the US withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/22\/afghanistan-evacuations-commercial-airlines-pentagon\">Pentagon orders commercial airlines to help in Afghanistan evacuations<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/22\/biden-afghanistan-evacuations-would-always-have-been-hard-and-painful\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President defends US exit but makes changes to airlift effort at Kabul airport after criticism over deaths and chaotic scenes Civil war \u2018unavoidable\u2019 if Taliban won\u2019t talk \u2013 opposition leaderThe evacuation of thousands of Americans and their Afghan all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2449,"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":[46,1854,471,939,61,44,45,473,758,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-biden-administration","category-islamic-state","category-joe-biden","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military","category-us-national-security","category-us-news","category-us-politics","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\/35739","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\/2449"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35740,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35739\/revisions\/35740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}