{"id":27797,"date":"2011-12-05T11:23:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T15:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27797"},"modified":"2011-12-05T11:24:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T15:24:43","slug":"clinton-promises-continued-us-support-for-afghanistan-after-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27797","title":{"rendered":"Clinton promises continued US support for Afghanistan after exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Milham at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/europe\/germany\/nations-vow-continued-support-for-afghanistan-after-troops-leave-1.162496\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> writes that the Obama Administration has promised that the United States will continue to support the Afghanistan government after the last troops have been pulled out of the country;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe United States intends to stay the course with our friends in Afghanistan,\u201d Clinton said, echoing earlier remarks by Guido Westerwelle, Germany\u2019s foreign minister, who said his country was sending a \u201cclear message to the people of Afghanistan: We will not leave you alone; you will not be abandoned.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s the same promise that the Nixon Administration made to South Vietnam and you can see how well that worked out for the now-stable South Vietnamese government. The Democrat Congress refused to appropriate funds South Vietnam needed in 1975 to blunt the North Vietnamese assault into the South.<\/p>\n<p>South Vietnamese president Thieu, when he announced his resignation as NVA forces streamed into Saigon, the capitol;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the time of the peace agreement the United States agreed to replace equipment on a one-by-one basis. But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American&#8217;s word reliable these days? The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If I were an Afghan, and not Taliban, I&#8217;d be worried right about now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Milham at Stars &#038; Stripes writes that the Obama Administration has promised that the United &hellip; <a title=\"Clinton promises continued US support for Afghanistan after exit\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27797\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clinton promises continued US support for Afghanistan after exit<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27797","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}