{"id":23155,"date":"2011-05-02T01:28:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T05:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23155"},"modified":"2011-05-02T02:03:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T06:03:42","slug":"rethink-afghanistan-the-rationale-for-war-has-evaporated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23155","title":{"rendered":"Rethink Afghanistan: the rationale for war has evaporated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As in my previous posts the group Rethink Afghanistan published this as a <a href=\"http:\/\/rethinkafghanistan.com\/?osama=dead2\">response<\/a> to the reports of Osama&#8217;s death. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOn May 1st, 2011, we learned that a CIA operation in Pakistan killed Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n<p>After 10 years of war and the death of Osama bin Laden, it&#8217;s time to bring the troops home from Afghanistan. With al-Qaeda driven from the country and <strong>Bin Laden now dead, the rationale for war has evaporated. It&#8217;s time to stop now.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The swift withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan must begin immediately. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ok lets get this straight the<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.investors.com\/capitalhill\/index.php\/home\/35-politicsinvesting\/2597-us-commando-raid-kills-osama-bin-laden-in-pakistan?src=HPLNews\"> raid happened in Pakistan<\/a>, something that Rethink Afghanistan has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/note.php?note_id=190160977694286&#038;comments\">very vocal about being against it. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>In fact that Rethink Afghanistan was putting out videos that decry that a <a href=\"http:\/\/rethinkafghanistan.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/turning-in-circles-in-afghanistan\/\">turning point <\/a>was about to be reached.  So if we had listened to you back then we would not have this moment. So that being said why should we listen to you now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As in my previous posts the group Rethink Afghanistan published this as a response to the &hellip; <a title=\"Rethink Afghanistan: the rationale for war has evaporated\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23155\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rethink Afghanistan: the rationale for war has evaporated<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,83,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-breaking-news","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23155","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\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}