{"id":31950,"date":"2012-09-11T12:18:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T16:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31950"},"modified":"2012-09-11T12:18:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T16:18:42","slug":"white-house-strategy-winning-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31950","title":{"rendered":"White House strategy winning in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, of course it&#8217;s not. Their &#8220;withdrawal at any cost&#8221; strategy is only encouraging the Taliban. Of course, it&#8217;s just bluster, but it&#8217;s a preview of how history will write this chapter of the war. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/world_now\/2012\/09\/taliban-sept-11-attacks-excuse-illegal-war.html\">LA Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After nearly 11 years of war, the movement declared that the \u201ccriminal warmongers\u201d \u2014 the United States and its allies in the NATO force \u2014 were \u201cfleeing the battleground, one after the other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica &#8230; is facing utter defeat in Afghanistan militarily, politically, economically and in all other facets, and it has exhausted all other means through which to prolong its illegal war,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>The statement comes at a time of discord within the Taliban movement over whether to move toward negotiations with the United States or to wait until after 2014, by which time most NATO troops are scheduled to have gone home. The Taliban leadership has publicly spurned the notion of talks with the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The French and New Zealanders are pulling their troops out of Afghanistan by the end of this year. With their refusal to negotiate with the Karzai government, the Taliban signal that he&#8217;s going last about a minute after the US leaves. Then he&#8217;ll have some atrocities to scream about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, of course it&#8217;s not. Their &#8220;withdrawal at any cost&#8221; strategy is only encouraging the Taliban. &hellip; <a title=\"White House strategy winning in Afghanistan\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31950\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">White House strategy winning in Afghanistan<\/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-31950","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\/31950","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=31950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}