{"id":13535,"date":"2009-06-25T15:43:32","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T15:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/more_us_troops_to_end_afghan_stalemate\/"},"modified":"2009-06-25T15:43:32","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T15:43:32","slug":"more_us_troops_to_end_afghan_stalemate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13535","title":{"rendered":"More US troops to end Afghan stalemate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of American troops are being poured into southern Afghanistan to break the &#8220;stalemate&#8221; in the region, the senior British commander in the country said today.<\/p>\n<p>General Jim Dutton, deputy commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan, denied that the British forces based in Helmand province in the south had been fighting a &#8220;losing campaign&#8221; against the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>But he acknowledged that &#8220;neither side could progress much&#8221; with the present force levels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/asia\/more-us-troops-to-end-afghan-stalemate-1718387.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of American troops are being poured into southern Afghanistan to break the &#8220;stalemate&#8221; in the region, the senior British commander in the country said today. General Jim Dutton, deputy commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan, denied that the British<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13535\">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":[40,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-war-in-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13535","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=13535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}