{"id":27495,"date":"2021-08-17T06:01:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T06:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=27495"},"modified":"2021-08-17T06:01:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T06:01:10","slug":"biden-defends-messy-us-pullout-from-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2021\/08\/17\/biden-defends-messy-us-pullout-from-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden defends &#8216;messy&#8217; US pullout from Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i87\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">President Joe Biden has said he stands &#8220;squarely&#8221; behind the US exit from Afghanistan as he faces withering criticism over the Taliban&#8217;s lightning conquest of the war-torn country.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i87\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">&#8220;How many more American lives is it worth?&#8221; asked the Democratic president.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i87\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">He said that despite the &#8220;messy&#8221; pullout, &#8220;there was never a good time to withdraw US forces&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i87\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">On Sunday, the Taliban declared victory after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled and his government collapsed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden has said he stands &ldquo;squarely&rdquo; behind the US exit from Afghanistan as he faces withering criticism over the Taliban&rsquo;s lightning conquest of the war-torn country. &ldquo;How many more American lives is it worth?&rdquo; asked the Democratic president. He said that despite the &ldquo;messy&rdquo; pullout, &ldquo;there was never a good time to withdraw US forces&rdquo;. On Sunday, the Taliban declared victory after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled and his government collapsed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27497,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27495\/revisions\/27497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}