{"id":31383,"date":"2012-03-15T23:15:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T23:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/karzai_demands_u-s-_troops_leave_village_outposts_taliban_suspends_peace_ta\/"},"modified":"2012-03-15T23:15:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T23:15:48","slug":"karzai_demands_u-s-_troops_leave_village_outposts_taliban_suspends_peace_ta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31383","title":{"rendered":"Karzai demands U.S. troops leave village outposts; Taliban suspends peace talks with U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> President Hamid Karzai demanded Thursday that the United States pull back from combat outposts and confine its troops to military bases in Afghanistan, an apparent response to Sunday\u2019s shooting rampage by a U.S. staff sergeant.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Taliban said it was suspending preliminary peace talks with the United States because of Washington\u2019s \u201calternating and ever-changing position,\u201d\u009d and accused U.S. officials of reneging on promises to take meaningful steps toward a prisoner swap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/afghan-who-crashed-truck-near-panetta-plane-dies-from-burns\/2012\/03\/15\/gIQAL9LVDS_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Hamid Karzai demanded Thursday that the United States pull back from combat outposts and confine its troops to military bases in Afghanistan, an apparent response to Sunday\u2019s shooting rampage by a U.S. staff sergeant. Meanwhile, the Taliban said it<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31383\">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-31383","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\/31383","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=31383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}