{"id":36104,"date":"2021-08-29T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/28\/afghanistan-efforts-not-in-vain-boris-johnson-tells-uk-troops"},"modified":"2021-08-29T06:30:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T21:30:08","slug":"your-efforts-in-afghanistan-were-not-in-vain-johnson-tells-uk-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36104","title":{"rendered":"Your efforts in Afghanistan were not in vain, Johnson tells UK troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open letter from the prime minister tells military personnel they should take \u2018the greatest pride\u2019 in their service there, and that gains made will live on<\/p>\n<p>Boris Johnson has responded to criticism that the rapid withdrawal from Afghanistan has undermined Britain\u2019s 20-year involvement in the country, by telling those who served that the gains made there will not \u201cswiftly be undone\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In an open letter to current and former military personnel, the prime minister said they \u201cshould take the greatest pride\u201d in their achievements in Afghanistan since the 2001 US-led invasion. He said they had succeeded in the \u201ccentral mission\u201d of keeping the UK safe from attacks masterminded from the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/28\/afghanistan-efforts-not-in-vain-boris-johnson-tells-uk-troops\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open letter from the prime minister tells military personnel they should take \u2018the greatest pride\u2019 in their service there, and that gains made will live onBoris Johnson has responded to criticism that the rapid withdrawal from Afghanistan has undermine&#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":[46,531,938,4,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-boris-johnson","category-military","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","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\/36104","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=36104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36105,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36104\/revisions\/36105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}