{"id":36095,"date":"2021-08-28T21:48:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T12:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/28\/joe-biden-worst-nightmare-afghanistan-islamic-state-bomb-marines-leon-panetta"},"modified":"2021-08-28T21:48:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T12:48:24","slug":"bidens-worst-nightmare-how-afghanistan-shook-a-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36095","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Biden\u2019s worst nightmare\u2019: how Afghanistan shook a president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rapid Taliban takeover, a chaotic evacuation and a deadly terror attack have shaken confidence in the commander-in-chief and US leadership<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden bowed his head at the lectern, as if the weight of the world were on his shoulders. In his breast pocket was a card that keeps a tally of American service members who have died in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now, he knew, it would include people who died serving under him as commander-in-chief.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/27\/us-airstrike-islamic-state-pentagon-kabul-attack\">US strikes IS target in Afghanistan and warns of airport threat<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/28\/joe-biden-worst-nightmare-afghanistan-islamic-state-bomb-marines-leon-panetta\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rapid Taliban takeover, a chaotic evacuation and a deadly terror attack have shaken confidence in the commander-in-chief and US leadershipJoe Biden bowed his head at the lectern, as if the weight of the world were on his shoulders. In his breast pock&#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":[46,1854,1007,939,1150,61,234,45,473,758,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-biden-administration","category-democrats","category-joe-biden","category-republicans","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-congress","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\/36095","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=36095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36096,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36095\/revisions\/36096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}