{"id":16661,"date":"2010-01-13T06:27:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T11:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=16661"},"modified":"2010-01-13T06:32:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T11:32:18","slug":"un-says-taliban-cause-rise-in-civilian-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16661","title":{"rendered":"UN Says Taliban Cause Rise in Civilian Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100113\/ap_on_re_as\/as_afghan_civilian_deaths\">A good read from the AP<\/a> that doesn&#8217;t for once blame unmanned drones for all the death and carnage in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>I found this part most interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A survey released this week found that 42 percent of the 1,534 Afghan respondents now blame the violence on the <span id=\"lw_1263377565_6\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;\">Taliban<\/span> \u2014 up from 27 percent a year ago. Seventeen percent blame the U.S., <span id=\"lw_1263377565_7\" class=\"yshortcuts\">NATO<\/span> or the Afghan security forces, down from 36 percent a year ago. But 66 percent said airstrikes by the U.S. and international forces were unacceptable because they endangered too many innocent civilians, even though they might help defeat militants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good read from the AP that doesn&#8217;t for once blame unmanned drones for all the &hellip; <a title=\"UN Says Taliban Cause Rise in Civilian Deaths\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16661\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UN Says Taliban Cause Rise in Civilian Deaths<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":607,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/607"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}