{"id":41852,"date":"2022-02-21T00:07:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T15:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/20\/west-catastrophic-damage-afghanistan-taliban-david-miliband"},"modified":"2022-02-21T00:07:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T15:07:52","slug":"west-has-inflicted-catastrophic-damage-on-afghanistan-says-david-miliband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41852","title":{"rendered":"West has inflicted catastrophic damage on Afghanistan, says David Miliband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018We are not punishing the Taliban, we are making it worse for the people,\u2019 says former UK foreign secretary<\/p>\n<p>The west has inflicted catastrophic damage on Afghanistan and its own reputation by imposing a policy of starvation on the country, according to David Miliband, the former UK foreign secretary and chief executive of the International Rescue Committee. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we wanted to create a failed state we could not have a more effective policy mix than the one we have at the moment,\u201d he told the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/20\/west-catastrophic-damage-afghanistan-taliban-david-miliband\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018We are not punishing the Taliban, we are making it worse for the people,\u2019 says former UK foreign secretaryThe west has inflicted catastrophic damage on Afghanistan and its own reputation by imposing a policy of starvation on the country, according to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[46,1854,2544,319,939,4,61,44,52,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-biden-administration","category-david-miliband","category-foreign-policy","category-joe-biden","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41852","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41853,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41852\/revisions\/41853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}