{"id":289195,"date":"2021-08-27T08:59:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T08:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=212723"},"modified":"2021-08-27T08:59:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T08:59:45","slug":"afghanistan-and-the-propaganda-of-infinite-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/27\/afghanistan-and-the-propaganda-of-infinite-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan and the Propaganda of Infinite War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban\u2019s re-ascendance are producing some incredible lamentations about the decline of American power. This apprehensiveness about withdrawal is premised on the belief that the U.S. acts as a force for good and is vital to the effort to defeat the scourge of global terrorism. This is familiar ground  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/27\/afghanistan-and-the-propaganda-of-infinite-war\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/27\/afghanistan-and-the-propaganda-of-infinite-war\/\">Afghanistan and the Propaganda of Infinite War<\/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\/27\/afghanistan-and-the-propaganda-of-infinite-war\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban\u2019s re-ascendance are producing some incredible lamentations about the decline of American power. This apprehensiveness about withdrawal is premised on the belief that the U.S. acts as a force for good&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289195"}],"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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289277,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289195\/revisions\/289277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}