{"id":34148,"date":"2019-11-11T11:21:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T19:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=34148"},"modified":"2019-11-11T11:21:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T19:21:18","slug":"democracy-doesnt-come-in-a-box-five-us-veterans-on-why-the-war-in-afghanistan-is-unwinnable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/11\/democracy-doesnt-come-in-a-box-five-us-veterans-on-why-the-war-in-afghanistan-is-unwinnable\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Democracy Doesn&#8217;t Come in a Box&#8217;: Five US Veterans on Why the War in Afghanistan Is Unwinnable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>New York Times<\/em> has an excellent video op-ed from five Afghanistan veterans, including Antiwar.com columnist Danny Sjursen.<\/p>\n<p>The vets on the video: <strong>Lyle Jeremy Rubin<\/strong> served in the Marine Corps from 2006 to 2011. <strong>Donald White<\/strong> served in the Marines from 2005 to 2014 and had three tours in Afghanistan. <strong>Arti Walker-Peddakotla<\/strong> served in the Army from 2000 to 2006. <strong>Danny Sjursen<\/strong> served in the Army from 2001 to 2019, including combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. <strong>Daniel L. Davis<\/strong> served in the Army for 21 years, including four combat tours, and was awarded a Bronze Star for valor in the first Gulf War and another for service in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New York Times Video - Embed Player\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" id=\"nyt_video_player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/players\/offsite\/index.html?videoId=100000006802073\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has an excellent video op-ed from five Afghanistan veterans, including Antiwar.com columnist Danny Sjursen. The vets on the video: Lyle Jeremy Rubin served in the Marine Corps from 2006 to 2011. Donald White served in the Marines from 2005 to 2014 and had three tours in Afghanistan. Arti Walker-Peddakotla served in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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-34148","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\/34148","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34150,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34148\/revisions\/34150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34148"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=34148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}