{"id":281719,"date":"2021-08-20T08:55:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T08:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=212181"},"modified":"2021-08-20T08:55:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T08:55:32","slug":"five-ways-the-u-s-created-and-prolonged-the-afghan-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/20\/five-ways-the-u-s-created-and-prolonged-the-afghan-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Ways the U.S. Created and Prolonged the Afghan Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media coverage of the Taliban takeover of Kabul would lead most Americans to believe that U.S. involvement in Afghanistan began after 9\/11, with the invasion to topple the previous Taliban government. But Afghanistan has been at war continuously for 42 years, and the Pentagon has been involved every step of the way, under both Republican  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/20\/five-ways-the-u-s-created-and-prolonged-the-afghan-crisis\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/20\/five-ways-the-u-s-created-and-prolonged-the-afghan-crisis\/\">Five Ways the U.S. Created and Prolonged the Afghan Crisis<\/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\/20\/five-ways-the-u-s-created-and-prolonged-the-afghan-crisis\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media coverage of the Taliban takeover of Kabul would lead most Americans to believe that U.S. involvement in Afghanistan began after 9\/11, with the invasion to topple the previous Taliban government. But Afghanistan has been at war continuously for 42&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1378,"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\/281719"}],"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\/1378"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281772,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281719\/revisions\/281772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}