{"id":14847,"date":"2012-05-01T18:03:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T02:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=14847"},"modified":"2012-05-01T18:26:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T02:26:51","slug":"us-embassy-in-kabul-duck-and-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/01\/us-embassy-in-kabul-duck-and-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING &#8212; US Embassy in Kabul: &#8220;Duck and cover&#8221;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of hours after Obama&#8217;s &#8220;stay the course&#8221; oration from Kabul,\u00a0the boys at\u00a0the US Embassy in that city\u00a0are diving under their desks. Explosions are rocking\u00a0the\u00a0 city, and the Embassy itself seems to be\u00a0in the crossfire. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USEmbassyKabul\/statuses\/197502599786807296\">Here<\/a>&#8216;s the latest, direct from the Embassy. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/05\/02\/us-afghanistan-kabul-blast-idUSBRE84102520120502\">Here<\/a>&#8216;s a tight-lipped Reuters report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My fellow Americans,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2012\/05\/01\/remarks-president-obama-address-nation-afghanistan\">intoned <\/a>the President a mere two and a half hours ago,\u00a0&#8220;we\u2019ve travelled through more than a decade under the dark cloud of war. Yet here, in the pre-dawn darkness of Afghanistan, we can see the light of a new day on the horizon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The only light on the horizon in Afghanistan, apparently,\u00a0is the flashing of Taliban guns. As US Embassy personnel cower in their offices, how long before the myth of American &#8220;progress&#8221; in defeating the insurgency is definitively deflated?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of hours after Obama&#8217;s &#8220;stay the course&#8221; oration from Kabul,\u00a0the boys at\u00a0the US Embassy in that city\u00a0are diving under their desks. Explosions are rocking\u00a0the\u00a0 city, and the Embassy itself seems to be\u00a0in the crossfire. \u00a0Here&#8216;s the latest, direct from the Embassy. Here&#8216;s a tight-lipped Reuters report. &#8220;My fellow Americans,&#8221; intoned the President a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14847"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14849,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14847\/revisions\/14849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14847"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}