{"id":188702,"date":"2010-08-09T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/09\/our-man-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2010-08-09T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T02:23:00","slug":"our-man-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/09\/our-man-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Man in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan President Hamid Karzai is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/08\/05\/AR2010080506972.html\">attempting to seize control of the anti-corruption probes in Afghanistan<\/a> (also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/07\/world\/asia\/07afghan.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Obama administration officials fear that a move by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to assert control over U.S.-backed corruption investigations might provoke the biggest crisis in U.S.-Afghan relations since last year&#8217;s fraud-riddled election and could further threaten congressional approval of billions of dollars in pending aid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder why?  It couldn&#8217;t be that anyone that he knows, or is close to him, is corrupt, could it?<\/p>\n<p>For this puke, we lost 3 soldiers today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan President Hamid Karzai is attempting to seize control of the anti-corruption probes in Afghanistan (also here): Obama administration officials fear that a move by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to assert control over U.S.-backed corruption investigations might provoke the biggest crisis in U.S.-Afghan relations since last year&#8217;s fraud-riddled election and could further threaten congressional approval &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,981,970,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-civil-war","category-corruption","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}