{"id":6220,"date":"2009-10-05T08:37:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T16:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=6220"},"modified":"2009-10-05T08:38:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T16:38:29","slug":"6220","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/6220\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan 24-Karat BS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<strong> Washington Post <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/10\/04\/AR2009100400778_pf.html\"><strong>article<\/strong> <\/a>on this weekend&#8217;s attack on a remote US military base in Afghanistan notes: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is really hard to interdict the enemy,&#8221; said the base&#8217;s company commander in an interview with The Washington Post in late September. &#8220;There are literally thousands of trails around here. We just don&#8217;t have the numbers of troops we need to be effective.&#8221;<br \/>\nAlthough the village of Kamdesh is only about a mile from the base, U.S. and Afghan troops <strong>never visited it because it was too dangerous<\/strong>, the company commander said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <em>Post<\/em> noted that, since last year, the Pentagon has been meaning to get around to withdrawing the troops who were killed this weekend,  but &#8230; well, the Pentagon has been so busy with its victory proclamations and its saber-rattling to send more troops to Afghanistan. <\/p>\n<p>And the chances of any Pentagon official being held responsible for these deaths?<\/p>\n<p>Tell it to Pat Tillman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post article on this weekend&#8217;s attack on a remote US military base in Afghanistan notes: It is really hard to interdict the enemy,&#8221; said the base&#8217;s company commander in an interview with The Washington Post in late September. &#8220;There are literally thousands of trails around here. We just don&#8217;t have the numbers of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"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-6220","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\/6220","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6223,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6220\/revisions\/6223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6220"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}