{"id":36432,"date":"2021-09-05T03:59:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T18:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/sep\/04\/britain-must-rediscover-the-will-to-lead-on-global-issues"},"modified":"2021-09-05T03:59:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T18:59:28","slug":"britain-must-rediscover-the-will-to-lead-on-global-issues-tobias-ellwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36432","title":{"rendered":"Britain must rediscover the will to lead on global issues | Tobias Ellwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The withdrawal from Afghanistan is folly and has highlighted glaring faults in Whitehall<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe war in Afghanistan is over,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/31\/joe-biden-afghanistan-speech-us-military\">proclaimed<\/a> Joe Biden. How wrong he will be proved to be.<\/p>\n<p>This was never a baseball game that simply folds when we all walk away, yet that is how Biden sold it to his fellow Americans, even though combat operations had ended in 2014.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/sep\/04\/britain-must-rediscover-the-will-to-lead-on-global-issues\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The withdrawal from Afghanistan is folly and has highlighted glaring faults in Whitehall\u201cThe war in Afghanistan is over,\u201d proclaimed Joe Biden. How wrong he will be proved to be.This was never a baseball game that simply folds when we all walk away, ye&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2533,"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":[46,1854,319,1879,2290,4,61,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-biden-administration","category-foreign-policy","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","category-ministry-of-defence","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","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\/36432","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\/2533"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36433,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36432\/revisions\/36433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}