{"id":30120,"date":"2012-05-25T08:21:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T12:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30120"},"modified":"2012-05-25T08:21:43","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T12:21:43","slug":"french-plan-what-french-do-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30120","title":{"rendered":"French plan what French do best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newly-elected French president, Francois Hollande, announced that he&#8217;ll keep his campaign promise to pull their troops out of Afghanistan by the end of the year leaving a small contingent of trainers to assist the Afghans according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.stripes.com\/dynamic\/stories\/A\/AS_AFGHANISTAN?SITE=DCSAS&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">Associated Press<\/a>. Yes, this is not a look of surprise on my face, since the French can&#8217;t be counted upon to support any NATO mission, but they&#8217;re the first to cry out for someone else to send their troops to war;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We won&#8217;t have any more combat forces in Afghanistan after Dec. 31, 2012. I say specifically combat forces. We will still have a military force that will be dedicated to the training of Afghan army officers, that will also be present at the hospital, the airport and also will allow the Afghans to have a police force that is the most effective possible,&#8221; he explained during a function at the French Embassy.<\/p>\n<p>Hollande insisted France is not abandoning Afghanistan. &#8220;No. This is a continuation, and there will be further engagement, but in a different form.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks, France. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly-elected French president, Francois Hollande, announced that he&#8217;ll keep his campaign promise to pull their &hellip; <a title=\"French plan what French do best\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30120\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">French plan what French do best<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30120","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=30120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}