{"id":232298,"date":"2021-08-16T15:55:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T20:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=232298"},"modified":"2021-08-16T16:49:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T21:49:58","slug":"biden-behind-his-decision-u-s-leaving-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=232298","title":{"rendered":"Biden behind his decision, U.S. leaving Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-232304\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Biden-speech-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Joe Biden says he stands \u201csquarely behind\u201d his decision for the U.S. to leave Afghanistan. Speaking about the chaotic situation in Kabul, Biden says he faced a choice between following an agreement to withdraw or sending thousands more U.S. troops for a \u201cthird decade\u201d of war. Biden spoke Monday after the planned withdrawal of American forces turned deadly at Kabul\u2019s airport as thousands tried to flee following the Taliban\u2019s swift takeover of the country. Biden returned to the White House from the Camp David presidential retreat to deliver his first public remarks on the situation in nearly a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Joe Biden says he stands \u201csquarely behind\u201d his decision for the U.S. to leave Afghanistan. Speaking about the chaotic situation in Kabul, Biden says he faced a choice between following an agreement to withdraw or sending thousands more U.S. troops for a \u201cthird decade\u201d of war. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":232304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232305,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232298\/revisions\/232305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/232304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}