{"id":198488,"date":"2007-11-05T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/05\/the-taliban-advances\/"},"modified":"2007-11-05T19:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T00:58:00","slug":"the-taliban-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/05\/the-taliban-advances\/","title":{"rendered":"The Taliban Advances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Needless to say, <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2007\/11\/taliban_capture_third_western.php\">First, Taliban rebels captured the Farah district of Gulistan a week ago, then on Wednesday took nearby Bakwa. On Sunday, the insurgents seized Khak-e Sefid without a fight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With US resources allocated to Iraq, and what there is of a US presence calling down air strikes willy-nilly, is it any surprise that we&#8217;re losing there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Needless to say, First, Taliban rebels captured the Farah district of Gulistan a week ago, then on Wednesday took nearby Bakwa. On Sunday, the insurgents seized Khak-e Sefid without a fight. With US resources allocated to Iraq, and what there is of a US presence calling down air strikes willy-nilly, is it any surprise that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,1151,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-asia","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198488"}],"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=198488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}