{"id":386370,"date":"2018-11-24T11:15:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T10:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/afghanistan-is-collapsing-get-out-now\/"},"modified":"2018-11-24T11:15:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T10:15:09","slug":"afghanistan-is-collapsing-get-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/afghanistan-is-collapsing-get-out-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan is Collapsing. Get Out: Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_107390\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107390\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/5457767301_eda7b1dc3f_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/5457767301_eda7b1dc3f_z.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/5457767301_eda7b1dc3f_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source Expert Infantry | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>November has been quite a month, so far, in Afghanistan.\u00a0\u00a0The level of violence has been appalling and the most serious recent atrocity was yet another\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-46273612\">suicide bombing<\/a>\u00a0in Kabul. It killed over fifty people and injured twice that many but didn\u2019t merit a Trump tweet, which isn\u2019t surprising because he doesn\u2019t seem to be interested in the place.\u00a0 Further,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/white-house-discusses-possible-trump-visit-to-troops-in-iraq-or-afghanistan\/2018\/11\/19\/9f6724d8-ec2a-11e8-96d4-0d23f2aaad09_story.html?utm_term=.9b8546aaea67\">as reported by<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0on November 19, he hasn\u2019t visited a single country in which his troops are fighting.<\/p>\n<p>The reason he hasn\u2019t visited his troops in such areas is because he is a coward.\u00a0\u00a0He is a physical yellow-belly who lacks the courage to go anywhere near a war zone.\u00a0\u00a0He is below contempt, but he could gain a little bit of respect if he ordered the US and NATO to get out of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Early in November the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/09\/magazine\/afghan-war-casualty-report.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FAfghanistan&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=world&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=latest&amp;contentPlacement=4&amp;pgtype=collection\">summed up<\/a>\u00a0the shambles in Afghanistan by stating<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the past week, the Times confirmed that 118 members of the security forces were killed, a significant increase over the previous week, but, unusually, there were no confirmed deaths of civilians. Fighting spread to nine provinces, but the emphasis shifted to the south as cold weather intensified in the north. An entire battalion of Afghan border soldiers was wiped out in western Farah Province, and the Taliban tried \u2014 unsuccessfully so far \u2014 to take over Jaghori District in Ghazni, an anti-insurgent stronghold.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On November 3 yet another US soldier\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/nov\/03\/afghanistan-kabul-us-armed-forces-killed-insider-attack\">was killed<\/a>\u00a0by a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/11\/23\/afghanistan-is-collapsing-get-out-now\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Source Expert Infantry | CC BY 2.0 November has been quite a month, so far, in Afghanistan.\u00a0\u00a0The level of violence has been appalling and the most serious recent atrocity was yet another\u00a0suicide bombing\u00a0in Kabul. It killed over fifty people and injured twice that many but didn\u2019t merit a Trump tweet, which isn\u2019t surprising because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-386370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}