{"id":37001,"date":"2021-09-18T20:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/sep\/18\/mark-milley-us-general-who-stood-up-to-trump-founders-over-kabul-strike"},"modified":"2021-09-18T20:00:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T11:00:05","slug":"mark-milley-us-general-who-stood-up-to-trump-founders-over-kabul-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37001","title":{"rendered":"Mark Milley, US general who stood up to Trump, founders over Kabul strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civilian deaths in US drone strike deal blow to credibility of chairman of the joint chiefs of staff when he needs it most<\/p>\n<p>Three days after a US drone obliterated a car in a Kabul street, General Mark Milley, shrugged off reports of civilian casualties, insisting it was a \u201crighteous strike\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday that word came back to haunt America\u2019s top general when the Pentagon was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/sep\/17\/us-military-strike-afghanistan-civilians-islamic-state-pentagon\">forced to admit<\/a> that all 10 dead had been civilians, seven of them children. The drone had hit the wrong white Toyota Corolla.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/sep\/18\/mark-milley-us-general-who-stood-up-to-trump-founders-over-kabul-strike\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civilian deaths in US drone strike deal blow to credibility of chairman of the joint chiefs of staff when he needs it mostThree days after a US drone obliterated a car in a Kabul street, General Mark Milley, shrugged off reports of civilian casualties,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"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":[46,61,473,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-military","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37001","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\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37002,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37001\/revisions\/37002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}