{"id":12447,"date":"2009-04-24T17:04:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T17:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/washington_post_taliban_advance_pakistans_wavering_worry_obama_team\/"},"modified":"2009-04-24T17:04:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T17:04:46","slug":"washington_post_taliban_advance_pakistans_wavering_worry_obama_team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12447","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post: Taliban Advance, Pakistan&#39;s Wavering Worry Obama Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration reacted with increasing alarm yesterday to ongoing Taliban advances in Pakistan, warning the Pakistani government that failure to take action against the extremists could endanger its partnership with the United States as well as American strategy in neighboring Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The news over the past several days is very disturbing,&#8221; White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said, adding that the administration &#8220;is extremely concerned&#8221; and that the issue was taking &#8220;a lot&#8221; of President Obama&#8217;s time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/04\/23\/AR2009042304114_pf.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/04\/23\/AR2009042304114_pf.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration reacted with increasing alarm yesterday to ongoing Taliban advances in Pakistan, warning the Pakistani government that failure to take action against the extremists could endanger its partnership with the United States as well as American strategy in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12447\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,201,144,343],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-foreign-relations","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}