{"id":390783,"date":"2018-12-28T03:41:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T02:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-might-continue-afghan-war-for-centuries\/"},"modified":"2018-12-28T03:41:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T02:41:30","slug":"presstv-us-might-continue-afghan-war-for-centuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-might-continue-afghan-war-for-centuries\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018US might continue Afghan war for centuries\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>An American political commentator and journalist has warned that the United States has no plans to end the war in Afghanistan and might continue it for centuries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Lendman, a Chicago-based author and radio host, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV while commenting on the Taliban\u2019s warning to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The militant group on Thursday warned the United States it would face the same fate as the Soviet Union in the 1980s if it did not leave Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement that US forces face &#8220;humiliation&#8221; and could &#8220;learn a great deal&#8221; from the experience of their Cold War foe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Take heed from the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan and abandon thoughts of testing the mettle of the already proven Afghans,&#8221; said the statement issued on the 39th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan in 1989, ending a decade-long occupation and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/12\/28\/584149\/US-might-continue-Afghan-war-for-centuries\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An American political commentator and journalist has warned that the United States has no plans to end the war in Afghanistan and might continue it for centuries. Stephen Lendman, a Chicago-based author and radio host, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV while commenting on the Taliban\u2019s warning to the United States. The [&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-390783","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\/390783","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=390783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}