{"id":86592,"date":"2019-04-26T09:15:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T13:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=86592"},"modified":"2019-04-26T07:45:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T11:45:51","slug":"morning-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86592","title":{"rendered":"Morning News"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_85517\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85517\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-85517\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/USMC-EA-6B-Prowler-over-Afghanistan-2014-2-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/USMC-EA-6B-Prowler-over-Afghanistan-2014-2-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/USMC-EA-6B-Prowler-over-Afghanistan-2014-2-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/USMC-EA-6B-Prowler-over-Afghanistan-2014-2-500x333.png 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/USMC-EA-6B-Prowler-over-Afghanistan-2014-2.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USMA EX-6B Prowler over Afghanistan (Photo by Senior Airman James Richardson\/USAF)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Regarding our presence in Afghanistan, it appears that the Taliban are having just as much trouble with ISIS as they used to have and that ISIS is regrouping. My view is that we should just get the hell out of there and let them kill each other off. But that&#8217;s just me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2019\/04\/25\/jihadi-war-between-taliban-and-islamic-state-intensifies-in-afghanistan\/\">https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2019\/04\/25\/jihadi-war-between-taliban-and-islamic-state-intensifies-in-afghanistan\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the article: \u00a0Deadly clashes between jihadi rivals the Taliban and the Islamic State (ISIS\/ISIL) have intensified this week in eastern Afghanistan\u2019s Nangarhar and Kunar provinces, reportedly leaving several terrorists dead and displacing hundreds of families.<\/p>\n<p>Neighboring Nangahar and Kunar provinces border Pakistan, which the United States, India, and Afghanistan have repeatedly accused of harboring the Afghan Taliban and other jihadis.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Khaama Press (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.khaama.com\/hundreds-of-families-displaced-as-clashes-intensify-between-taliban-isis-in-the-east-03799\/\">KP<\/a>) published on Thursday, Ataullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar, confirmed that \u201cclashes intensified between Taliban and ISIS militants in [the province\u2019s] Khogyani and Shirzad district in the past two days, leaving several militants dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Is there really a good reason for us to be there? We haven\u2019t stopped the opium trafficking, No one has ever been able to stop any of that crap from spreading all over the planet. The pseudo-religious warfare is a squabble over something that makes them want to kill each other off, so why not just get out of their way and sell tickets to it?<\/p>\n<p>However, in the view of\u00a0the Iranian Foreign Minister, Zarif thinks that Trump does not want war, but is being goaded into it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2019\/04\/25\/iranian-fm-zarif-accuses-netanyahu-saudis-of-goading-trump-into-war\/\">https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2019\/04\/25\/iranian-fm-zarif-accuses-netanyahu-saudis-of-goading-trump-into-war\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TEL AVIV \u2013 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday said he does not believe President Donald Trump wants war with Iran, but added that the American president could be lured into a conflict by a \u201cB-team\u201d comprising national security adviser John Bolton, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think [Trump] wants war,\u201d Zarif said in an interview with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-iran-usa-exclusive\/exclusive-irans-zarif-believes-trump-does-not-want-war-but-could-be-lured-into-conflict-idUSKCN1S02VK\">Reuters<\/a>\u00a0at the Iranian mission to the United Nations in New York. \u201cBut that doesn\u2019t exclude him being basically lured into one.\u201d\u00a0 Zarif pointed to what he coined a \u201cB-team\u201d goading him into war, which included Bolton and Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s such a peacenik, isn\u2019t he?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding our presence in Afghanistan, it appears that the Taliban are having just as much trouble &hellip; <a title=\"Morning News\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86592\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Morning News<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,301,308,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-afghanistan","category-iran","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86592","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}