{"id":28359,"date":"2012-01-18T09:58:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T13:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28359"},"modified":"2012-01-18T09:58:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T13:58:34","slug":"hiding-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28359","title":{"rendered":"Hiding the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I wrote about an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28347\">Afghan major who gunned down eight Americans in cold blood<\/a>. Today, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/afghanistan\/coalition-limits-details-on-troops-killed-by-afghans-1.166207\">USAToday<\/a> writes that the Obama Administration and the Department of Defense will no longer keep public statistics on American trainers who were killed by their students;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since 2005, more than 50 troops had been killed and 48 wounded by Afghan troops, according to data released before the policy changed and USA TODAY research. In 2011, Afghan troops killed at least 13 ISAF troops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess whether withdrawal from Afghanistan is realistic or not is the reason they&#8217;d begin to hide this evidence from the public. In other words, withdrawal is now the over-arching goal and not success. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Obama has said he intends to hand off security responsibility to the Afghan government in 2014. NATO forces train Afghans to fill the ranks of the country&#8217;s military and police forces to keep the Taliban insurgency from regaining power.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So who wants to be the last to die for a lie?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I wrote about an Afghan major who gunned down eight Americans in cold blood. Today, &hellip; <a title=\"Hiding the truth\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28359\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hiding the truth<\/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-28359","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\/28359","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=28359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}