{"id":836,"date":"2017-09-20T14:58:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T14:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=836"},"modified":"2017-09-20T14:58:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T14:58:42","slug":"taliban-responds-to-trumps-afghan-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2017\/09\/20\/taliban-responds-to-trumps-afghan-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban responds to Trump&#8217;s Afghan strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Afghan\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/taliban.html\" target=\"_self\">Taliban<\/a>\u00a0has warned Donald Trump is &#8220;wasting&#8221; American soldiers&#8217; lives after the US president\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/08\/trump-vows-fighting-afghanistan-170822012709108.html\" target=\"_self\">approved<\/a>\u00a0sending\u00a0thousands more troops to the war-ravaged country.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban spokesman\u00a0Zabiullah Mujahid said\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/afghanistan.html\" target=\"_self\">Afghanistan<\/a>\u00a0would become a &#8220;graveyard&#8221; for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\" target=\"_self\">US<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday after dismissing Trump&#8217;s strategy as vague and offering &#8220;nothing new&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If America doesn&#8217;t withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, soon Afghanistan will become another graveyard for this superpower in the 21st century,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Afghan\u00a0Taliban\u00a0has warned Donald Trump is &#8220;wasting&#8221; American soldiers&#8217; lives after the US president\u00a0approved\u00a0sending\u00a0thousands more troops to the war-ravaged country. Taliban spokesman\u00a0Zabiullah Mujahid said\u00a0Afghanistan\u00a0would become a &#8220;graveyard&#8221; for the\u00a0US\u00a0on Tuesday after dismissing Trump&#8217;s strategy as vague and offering &#8220;nothing new&#8221;. &#8220;If America doesn&#8217;t withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, soon Afghanistan will become another graveyard for this superpower in the 21st&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2017\/09\/20\/taliban-responds-to-trumps-afghan-strategy\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}