{"id":22908,"date":"2010-11-15T16:17:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T16:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/u-s-_nato_to_announce_transition_strategy_in_afghanistan_war\/"},"modified":"2010-11-15T16:17:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T16:17:15","slug":"u-s-_nato_to_announce_transition_strategy_in_afghanistan_war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22908","title":{"rendered":"U.S., NATO to announce &#39;transition&#39; strategy in Afghanistan war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The seemingly contradictory messages, in communiques and agreements to be released at NATO&#8217;s upcoming summit in Lisbon, are intended to reassure U.S. and European audiences that the process of ending the war has begun.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the coalition wants to signal to the Taliban &#8211; along with Afghans and regional partners who fear a coalition withdrawal, and Republicans in Congress who oppose it &#8211; that they are not leaving anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;We have to assemble a coherent narrative<\/b> . . . that everyone buys into,&#8221; said a senior administration official, one of several who discussed ongoing alliance negotiations on the condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/11\/13\/AR2010111303746_pf.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seemingly contradictory messages, in communiques and agreements to be released at NATO&#8217;s upcoming summit in Lisbon, are intended to reassure U.S. and European audiences that the process of ending the war has begun. At the same time, the coalition<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22908\">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":[40,50,503,201,143,200,144,343,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-afghanistan","category-asia","category-defense-national-security-military","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-pakistan","category-war-in-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22908","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=22908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}