{"id":33984,"date":"2012-08-10T21:04:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T21:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/afghans_fear_u-s-_pullout_will_unplug_key_projects\/"},"modified":"2012-08-10T21:04:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T21:04:38","slug":"afghans_fear_u-s-_pullout_will_unplug_key_projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33984","title":{"rendered":"Afghans Fear U.S. Pullout Will Unplug Key Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here in the cradle of the Taliban movement, Faizulhaq Mushkani sold his land for $600,000 last year to buy equipment to open a packaging factory in a booming industrial park.<\/p>\n<p>The industrial park\u201d\u201dpowered by military-run electrical generators\u201d\u201dis a pillar of the U.S. strategy against the Afghan insurgency. The arrival of reliable electricity in late 2010 revitalized Kandahar. More than 100 new factories have sprouted.<\/p>\n<p>These days, however, Mr. Mushkani and fellow entrepreneurs are grappling with a fatal flaw in their business plans: They expected the Americans to stick around longer. But, now, with U.S. forces preparing to depart Kandahar next year, the American electricity will disappear, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303292204577517010577141868.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in the cradle of the Taliban movement, Faizulhaq Mushkani sold his land for $600,000 last year to buy equipment to open a packaging factory in a booming industrial park. The industrial park\u201d\u201dpowered by military-run electrical generators\u201d\u201dis a pillar of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33984\">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":[40,50,503,209,201,143,149,144,151,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-afghanistan","category-americau-s-a","category-asia","category-defense-national-security-military","category-economy","category-foreign-relations","category-politics-in-general","category-war-in-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33984","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=33984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}