{"id":35797,"date":"2021-08-24T02:30:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T17:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/aug\/23\/the-guardian-view-on-the-g7-afghanistan-talks-desperate-damage-limitation"},"modified":"2021-08-24T02:30:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T17:30:10","slug":"the-guardian-view-on-the-g7-afghanistan-talks-desperate-damage-limitation-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35797","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian view on the G7 Afghanistan talks: desperate damage limitation | Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lack of planning and coordination has left the west scrambling to do the right thing<\/p>\n<p>At the weekend, in advance of Tuesday\u2019s crisis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/22\/johnson-to-urge-biden-to-keep-us-troops-at-kabul-airport-after-31-august\" title=\"\">meeting<\/a> of G7 leaders, Boris Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BorisJohnson\/status\/1429423519612481536\" title=\"\">tweeted<\/a> that it was vital for the international community to work together to \u201censure safe evacuations, prevent a humanitarian crisis and support the Afghan people to secure the gains of the last 20 years\u201d. Had this exhortation been made at June\u2019s G7 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/08\/21\/biden-told-g7-world-leaders-he-would-keep-security-presence-in-afghanistan\/\" title=\"\">summit<\/a> in Cornwall \u2013 when America\u2019s intention to pull out of Afghanistan at reckless speed was already known \u2013 it would have been a little more impressive and meaningful.<\/p>\n<p>Delivered belatedly against a backdrop of lethal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/22\/seven-dead-in-kabul-airport-crowds-as-uk-backs-later-us-deadline\" title=\"\">chaos<\/a> and confusion at Kabul airport, the prime minister\u2019s words serve only to underline how little planning and coordination took place when both were urgently required. As a result of Joe Biden\u2019s precipitate haste to get the withdrawal over and done with, and the negligent response of allies such as Britain, a humanitarian crisis is already in train. For tens of thousands of justifiably terrified Afghanis, the evacuation process is a dangerous lottery that represents a betrayal of the trust they placed in the west. The \u201cgains of the last 20 years\u201d, such as greater freedoms for women and girls, will now be subject to the internal politics of the Taliban, as it decides which face it wishes to present to the world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/aug\/23\/the-guardian-view-on-the-g7-afghanistan-talks-desperate-damage-limitation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lack of planning and coordination has left the west scrambling to do the right thingAt the weekend, in advance of Tuesday\u2019s crisis meeting of G7 leaders, Boris Johnson tweeted that it was vital for the international community to work together to \u201censur&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"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":[46,531,997,319,637,939,470,4,61,1045],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-boris-johnson","category-defence-policy","category-foreign-policy","category-g7","category-joe-biden","category-nato","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-health-organization"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35797","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\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35798,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35797\/revisions\/35798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}