{"id":61959,"date":"2024-02-17T00:42:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T15:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/16\/biden-afghanistan-withdrawal-book"},"modified":"2024-02-17T00:42:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T15:42:26","slug":"biden-privately-defiant-over-chaotic-2021-afghanistan-withdrawal-book-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61959","title":{"rendered":"Biden \u2018privately defiant\u2019 over chaotic 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, book says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internationalists details how the president was determined to leave a country in which 2,324 US troops were killed since 2001<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/joebiden\">Joe Biden<\/a> is \u201cprivately defiant\u201d that he made the right calls on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in summer 2021, a new book reportedly says, even as the chaos and carnage that unfolded continues to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?533493-1\/fmr-ambassador-testifies-us-withdrawal-afghanistan\">investigated<\/a> in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one offered to resign\u201d over the withdrawal, writes Alexander Ward, a Politico reporter, \u201cin large part because the president didn\u2019t believe anyone had made a mistake. Ending the war was always going to be messy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/16\/biden-afghanistan-withdrawal-book\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internationalists details how the president was determined to leave a country in which 2,324 US troops were killed since 2001Joe Biden is \u201cprivately defiant\u201d that he made the right calls on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in summer 2021, a new b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":731,"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":[46,1854,511,939,543,61,45,473,758,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-biden-administration","category-books","category-joe-biden","category-politics-books","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military","category-us-national-security","category-us-news","category-us-politics","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\/61959","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\/731"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61960,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61959\/revisions\/61960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}