{"id":31320,"date":"2012-03-12T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T18:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/new_yorker_jon_lee_anderson-massacre_in_kandahar\/"},"modified":"2012-03-12T18:00:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T18:00:22","slug":"new_yorker_jon_lee_anderson-massacre_in_kandahar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31320","title":{"rendered":"(New Yorker) Jon Lee Anderson&#8211;Massacre in Kandahar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the signs are that the United States military and its NATO allies have not only outlived their welcome in Afghanistan but also passed the point at which their presence is anything other than toxic. While the exact details of the incident are still unclear, it\u2019s known that early Sunday morning, an American solider in Kandahar province\u2019s Panjwai district apparently murdered up to sixteen Afghan civilians in cold blood. Nine of the victims were reportedly children. This is merely the latest in a string of episodes in which American soldiers\u201d\u201din spite of the positive intentions of an overwhelming majority of the troops there\u201d\u201dhave shown scorn, disrespect, and, increasingly and tragically, hatred for the people of the country hosting them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/newsdesk\/2012\/03\/massacre-in-kandahar.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the signs are that the United States military and its NATO allies have not only outlived their welcome in Afghanistan but also passed the point at which their presence is anything other than toxic. While the exact details of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31320\">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":[39,40,50,209,201,491,143,144,151,124,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-asia","category-bahrain","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-politics-in-general","category-violence","category-war-in-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31320","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=31320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}