{"id":22945,"date":"2011-04-13T10:30:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T14:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22945"},"modified":"2011-04-13T10:30:52","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T14:30:52","slug":"astan-bases-policy-or-missed-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22945","title":{"rendered":"A&#8217;stan Bases &#8211; Policy or Missed Opportunity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longwarjournal.org\/archives\/2011\/04\/taliban_occupy_aband.php\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Roggio over at The Long War Journal<\/a> has a post up that highlights something interesting.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Taliban have occupied a combat outpost abandoned by US troops in  the eastern province of Kunar, and claim they will set up a headquarters  there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longwarjournal.org\/videos\/2011\/04\/taliban_move_in_to_former_us_b.php\">In a video taken by <em>Al Jazeera<\/em><\/a>,  a heavily armed group of Taliban fighters is seen marching up a road in  the Pech River Valley. The fighters do not appear concerned about being  targeted by Afghan or US ground or air forces.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban group is then filmed inside what appears to be a combat  outpost; HESCO barriers, sandbags, and other artifacts from ISAF forces  are seen in the background.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This could just be Taliban propaganda, but still raises questions.  As several of the comments there note; this would seem a perfect opportunity the play Whack-a-Mole?<\/p>\n<p>A rather obvious question (even for 7th century goat lovers?) is WHY are there no sensors or other forms of monitoring left in place when our guys pull out. And maybe not booby traps (<strong>innocent<\/strong> 7th century goat lovers?), but some sort of remote demo as well?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Roggio over at The Long War Journal has a post up that highlights something interesting. &hellip; <a title=\"A&#8217;stan Bases &#8211; Policy or Missed Opportunity?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22945\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A&#8217;stan Bases &#8211; Policy or Missed Opportunity?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22945","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}