{"id":36426,"date":"2021-09-04T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/sep\/04\/joe-biden-afghanistan-kabul-retreat"},"modified":"2021-09-04T15:00:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T06:00:15","slug":"bruised-biden-tries-to-turn-the-page-after-us-debacle-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36426","title":{"rendered":"Bruised Biden tries to turn the page after US debacle in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a hellish month, the president wants to focus on domestic matters \u2013 but Republicans won\u2019t let Afghanistan drop from the radar<\/p>\n<p>Once again Joe Biden found himself talking about nation-building, the fragility of democracy and the threat that religious extremists pose to women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p>But the president\u2019s interventions on Thursday were focused on America, not Afghanistan, as domestic events gave him an unexpected assist in his effort to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/08\/31\/biden-move-past-afghanistan-fiasco-507865\">turn the page<\/a> on the ignominious retreat from Kabul.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/sep\/04\/joe-biden-afghanistan-kabul-retreat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a hellish month, the president wants to focus on domestic matters \u2013 but Republicans won\u2019t let Afghanistan drop from the radarOnce again Joe Biden found himself talking about nation-building, the fragility of democracy and the threat that religiou&#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":[46,939,61,45,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-joe-biden","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military","category-us-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\/36426","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=36426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36427,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36426\/revisions\/36427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}