{"id":268135,"date":"2021-08-09T08:56:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T08:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=211101"},"modified":"2021-08-09T08:56:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T08:56:45","slug":"twilight-of-the-20-year-occupation-of-afghanistan-u-s-soldiers-sent-to-kill-and-die-for-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/09\/twilight-of-the-20-year-occupation-of-afghanistan-u-s-soldiers-sent-to-kill-and-die-for-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Twilight of the 20-Year Occupation of Afghanistan: U.S. Soldiers Sent to Kill and Die\u2014For What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Davis was 11 years old when the war in Afghanistan started, 19 years old when he enlisted in the U.S. military and 21 years old when he arrived in Afghanistan\u2019s Wardak province as part of a combat engineering unit tasked with finding improvised explosive devices (IEDs). \u201cI came from a really small town in  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/09\/twilight-of-the-20-year-occupation-of-afghanistan-u-s-soldiers-sent-to-kill-and-die-for-what\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/09\/twilight-of-the-20-year-occupation-of-afghanistan-u-s-soldiers-sent-to-kill-and-die-for-what\/\">Twilight of the 20-Year Occupation of Afghanistan: U.S. Soldiers Sent to Kill and Die\u2014For What?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/09\/twilight-of-the-20-year-occupation-of-afghanistan-u-s-soldiers-sent-to-kill-and-die-for-what\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Davis was 11 years old when the war in Afghanistan started, 19 years old when he enlisted in the U.S. military and 21 years old when he arrived in Afghanistan\u2019s Wardak province as part of a combat engineering unit tasked with finding improvised&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7509,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268324,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268135\/revisions\/268324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}