{"id":37440,"date":"2021-09-29T07:52:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T22:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/28\/blame-shifting-over-us-withdrawal-ignores-deeper-failings-in-afghanistan"},"modified":"2021-09-29T07:52:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T22:52:25","slug":"blame-shifting-over-us-withdrawal-ignores-deeper-failings-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37440","title":{"rendered":"Blame-shifting over US withdrawal ignores deeper failings in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Senators\u2019 questions to military leadership a contest in sharing out responsibility for failures<\/p>\n<p>The deeply partisan US Congress is rarely a conducive place for national introspection and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/sep\/28\/afghanistan-withdrawal-gen-mark-milley-senate\">Tuesday\u2019s Senate hearing on the Afghanistan withdrawal<\/a> did not provide an exception.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of the point-scoring and blame-shifting on display in the senators\u2019 questions to the nation\u2019s military leadership, it was clear that it was a contest to apportion shares in failure.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/28\/blame-shifting-over-us-withdrawal-ignores-deeper-failings-in-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Senators\u2019 questions to military leadership a contest in sharing out responsibility for failuresThe deeply partisan US Congress is rarely a conducive place for national introspection and Tuesday\u2019s Senate hearing on the Afghanistan withdrawal d&#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":[46,1007,415,939,1150,44,234,473,47,631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-democrats","category-donald-trump","category-joe-biden","category-republicans","category-taliban","category-us-congress","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-us-politics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37440","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=37440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37441,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37440\/revisions\/37441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}