{"id":138753,"date":"2017-12-13T01:44:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T06:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=138753"},"modified":"2017-12-13T01:46:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T06:46:18","slug":"trump-discards-plans-for-a-speedy-exit-in-afghan-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/13\/trump-discards-plans-for-a-speedy-exit-in-afghan-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump discards plans for a speedy exit in Afghan war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump takes back his promise of ending the 16-year war in Afghanistan as after a few months of pondering, the US president believes that by doing so, it would leave a \u201cvacuum\u201d that terrorists \u201cwould instantly fill\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It can be recalled that President Trump derided the battles in Afghanistan, being the longest war in America, as a waste of time and money.<\/p>\n<p>But now, the US President came into realization that &#8220;the consequences of a rapid exit are both predictable and unacceptable.\u201d He also admitted that things looked differently from &#8220;behind the desk in the Oval Office&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump declared that U.S. troops must &#8220;fight to win,&#8221; and that America will not cease in working with the Afghanistan government as long as they see the presence of determination and progress.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, upon saying that America\u2019s commitment is not limited, the US President also emphasized that their support is not a \u201cblank check\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 08 \/\u00a022 \/ 17)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump takes back his promise of ending the 16-year war in Afghanistan as after a few months of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}