{"id":7413,"date":"2019-08-20T02:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/aug\/19\/trump-peace-plan-betrayal-afghanistan"},"modified":"2019-08-20T02:33:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T17:33:00","slug":"donald-trumps-peace-agreement-is-a-betrayal-of-afghanistan-and-its-people-simon-tisdall-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7413","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s \u2018peace agreement\u2019 is a betrayal of Afghanistan and its people | Simon Tisdall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This cut-and-run policy will leave the country trapped in a conflict with the Taliban and fail the casualties of war<\/p>\n<p>If Donald Trump has his way a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/17\/trump-hints-america-close-to-deal-with-taliban-others-question-peace\" title=\"\">\u201cpeace agreement\u201d<\/a> in Afghanistan will be finalised in the coming days. It\u2019s a sure bet the US president will claim noisy, personal credit for ending one of America\u2019s longest wars. Knowing him, he may even hail it as the \u201cdeal of the century\u201d \u2013 despite having already accorded that boastful accolade to his failed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/jun\/30\/trump-north-korea-kim-jong-un\" title=\"\">North Korea summitry<\/a>. But the world, as always, should beware a Trump bearing gifts.<\/p>\n<p>It will deliver what candidate Trump most wants \u2013 a path home for 14,000 American troops before next year\u2019s US election<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/aug\/19\/trump-peace-plan-betrayal-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This cut-and-run policy will leave the country trapped in a conflict with the Taliban and fail the casualties of warIf Donald Trump has his way a \u201cpeace agreement\u201d in Afghanistan will be finalised in the coming days. It\u2019s a sure bet the US president wi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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":[46,487,415,61,44,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-al-qaida","category-donald-trump","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/7413","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7414,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413\/revisions\/7414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}