{"id":36400,"date":"2013-06-25T14:25:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T18:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36400"},"modified":"2013-06-25T14:26:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T18:26:40","slug":"der-speigel-afghan-diplomats-defecting-as-us-withdrawal-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36400","title":{"rendered":"Der Spiegel: Afghan diplomats defecting as US withdrawal approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preston sends us a link from German publication, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/diplomats-defect-as-western-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-nears-a-907601.html\">Der Spiegel<\/a>, in which they notice that Afghan diplomats seem to be defecting to the nations in which they are posted;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A total of 105 Afghan diplomats were meant to report for duty at the Foreign Ministry in Kabul on Saturday. They were being rotated out of their foreign postings as scheduled, and it was time to return to headquarters. Yet just five of them have resurfaced. The others have apparently remained in the countries where they had been posted, among them several employees of the Afghan Embassy in Berlin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I believe the phrase is &#8220;rats leaving a sinking ship&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They are hoping that there is more clarity about the future of our country by that point [the 2014 Presidential elections],&#8221; said an employee of the ministry. &#8220;I feel as though there has been an exodus. No one wants to return to Afghanistan,&#8221; said the employee, who added that they couldn&#8217;t be faulted for wanting to stay away from&#8221;the situation in the country.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What a selfish bunch of morons. Apparently the &#8220;best and the brightest&#8221; of the country don&#8217;t give a tiny rat&#8217;s ass about the future of Afghanistan, so why should we sacrifice our own best and brightest so they can lay about in European parlors sipping wine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preston sends us a link from German publication, Der Spiegel, in which they notice that Afghan &hellip; <a title=\"Der Spiegel: Afghan diplomats defecting as US withdrawal approaches\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36400\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Der Spiegel: Afghan diplomats defecting as US withdrawal approaches<\/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-36400","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\/36400","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=36400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}