{"id":36000,"date":"2021-08-27T13:01:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T04:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/27\/joe-biden-afghanistan-kabul-airport-bombs"},"modified":"2021-08-27T13:01:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T04:01:07","slug":"kabul-airport-atrocity-offers-a-glimpse-of-the-chaos-to-come-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36000","title":{"rendered":"Kabul airport atrocity offers a glimpse of the chaos to come in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden left with no good options after deadliest day for US troops in Afghanistan in more than a decade<\/p>\n<p>The tempting comparison between the withdrawals of US forces from Kabul in 2021 and Saigon in 1975 has offered diminishing returns over the past 12 days.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas about 7,000 people were evacuated from Vietnam (5,500 Vietnamese civilians and about 1,500 Americans), more than 95,000 people have left Afghanistan in a historic airlift since 14 August, the day before the capital fell to the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/27\/joe-biden-afghanistan-kabul-airport-bombs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden left with no good options after deadliest day for US troops in Afghanistan in more than a decadeThe tempting comparison between the withdrawals of US forces from Kabul in 2021 and Saigon in 1975 has offered diminishing returns over the past 1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1491,"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":[46,471,939,61,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-islamic-state","category-joe-biden","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-us-politics","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\/36000","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\/1491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36001,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36000\/revisions\/36001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}