{"id":195366,"date":"2008-07-14T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/14\/afghanistan-is-getting-much-worse\/"},"modified":"2008-07-14T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T22:21:00","slug":"afghanistan-is-getting-much-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/14\/afghanistan-is-getting-much-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan is Getting Much Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was not a lucky shot or roadside bomb&#8230;this was a deliberate can extensively planned assault that killed 9 US troops.<\/p>\n<p>They assaulted this base <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/7504952.stm\">base with a large number of insurgents over a period of hours<\/a> (see also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/0714\/p99s01-duts.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>This sort of large and well organized operation shows a capability that the Taliban has not demonstrated before, and I can&#8217;t help but think that this is a prelude to a more ambitious operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was not a lucky shot or roadside bomb&#8230;this was a deliberate can extensively planned assault that killed 9 US troops. They assaulted this base base with a large number of insurgents over a period of hours (see also here). This sort of large and well organized operation shows a capability that the Taliban has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195366"}],"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=195366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}