{"id":47743,"date":"2015-01-06T03:15:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T03:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/csm_afghanistan_us_should_re-examine_withdrawing_from_country\/"},"modified":"2015-01-06T03:15:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T03:15:32","slug":"csm_afghanistan_us_should_re-examine_withdrawing_from_country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47743","title":{"rendered":"(CSM) Afghanistan: US should &#39;re-examine&#39; withdrawing from country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s president says that the US should &#8220;re-examine&#8221; its plans to withdraw its forces from his country, just days after the official end of combat operations there.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, NATO forces closed down &#8220;Operation Enduring Freedom,&#8221; the campaign it has run in Afghanistan since 2001, in what The Christian Science Monitor described as &#8220;a small Sunday ceremony that made it clear that NATO was not interested in calling a great deal of attention to the occasion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some 13,000 troops, mostly American, will remain in the country to help train Afghan forces and to conduct &#8220;counterterrorism&#8221; operations &#8220;against the remnants of Al Qaeda,&#8221; US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said. These forces in turn are due to withdraw by the end of 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Security-Watch\/terrorism-security\/2015\/0105\/Afghanistan-US-should-re-examine-withdrawing-from-country\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s president says that the US should &#8220;re-examine&#8221; its plans to withdraw its forces from his country, just days after the official end of combat operations there. Last week, NATO forces closed down &#8220;Operation Enduring Freedom,&#8221; the campaign it has<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47743\">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":[40,50,503,209,201,143,168,144,151,34,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47743","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-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-politics-in-general","category-theology","category-war-in-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47743","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=47743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}