{"id":8457,"date":"2019-09-04T03:36:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T18:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/03\/us-afghanistan-troop-withdrawal-peace-ambassadors"},"modified":"2019-09-04T03:36:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T18:36:02","slug":"afghanistan-current-us-withdrawal-plan-risks-total-civil-war-top-envoys-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8457","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: current US withdrawal plan risks &#8216;total civil war&#8217;, top envoys say"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Nine ambassadors condemn US approach to negotiations<\/li>\n<li>Letter says full withdrawal must come \u2018only after real peace\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The majority of America\u2019s ambassadors to Afghanistan since the removal of the Taliban government have condemned the US approach to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/01\/us-and-taliban-close-to-deal-to-stop-fighting-and-allow-peace-talks-us-official-says\">negotiating a troop withdrawal<\/a>, warning it risked a return to \u201ctotal civil war\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Writing the day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/01\/us-and-taliban-close-to-deal-to-stop-fighting-and-allow-peace-talks-us-official-says\">a draft agreement was announced<\/a>, the nine men, including a former deputy secretary of state, said they supported peace talks in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/03\/us-afghanistan-troop-withdrawal-peace-ambassadors\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine ambassadors condemn US approach to negotiationsLetter says full withdrawal must come \u2018only after real peace\u2019The majority of America\u2019s ambassadors to Afghanistan since the removal of the Taliban government have condemned the US approach to negotiat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"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":[46,61,44,45,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military","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\/8457","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8459,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457\/revisions\/8459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}