{"id":33740,"date":"2013-01-21T17:35:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T21:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33740"},"modified":"2013-01-21T17:35:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T21:35:27","slug":"nine-hour-battle-in-kabul-while-dc-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33740","title":{"rendered":"Nine-hour battle in Kabul while DC parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/afghanistan\/nine-hour-battle-grips-kabul-1.204702\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that the Taliban punctuated the celebration in Washington, DC today with a nine-hour running gun battle through the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan today which also included a car bomb set off in front of a police station and some suicide bombers detonating themselves.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for the attack, which started around 5:30 a.m., when at least four attackers stormed the lightly-defended headquarters of the Kabul Traffic Police, before taking up positions and firing light and heavy weapons down on an adjacent compound that houses the Afghan Border Police<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In his inauguration address today, the president pronounced that &#8220;We, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war.&#8221; He should be giving that advice to the Taliban, not to us. If I may quote General Mattis for the second time today &#8220;&#8230;no war is over until the enemy says it&#8217;s over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From the S&#038;S article;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Winter usually sees a lull in violence in Afghanistan, as insurgents head to safe havens in Pakistan. Monday\u2019s attack, however, was the second in a week to hit the capital. Last week, suicide bombers attacked the country\u2019s security services headquarters, killing two guards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, I wonder why they&#8217;re especially active this year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripes reports that the Taliban punctuated the celebration in Washington, DC today with a &hellip; <a title=\"Nine-hour battle in Kabul while DC parties\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33740\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nine-hour battle in Kabul while DC parties<\/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-33740","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\/33740","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=33740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}