{"id":156961,"date":"2023-03-09T09:20:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T17:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=156961"},"modified":"2023-03-09T09:20:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T17:20:36","slug":"withdrawal-a-catastrophe-veteran-speaks-on-afghanistan-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=156961","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Withdrawal a Catastrophe&#8221; Veteran Speaks on Afghanistan Withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;(CSPAN)..Emotional testimony from Sgt. Vargas-Andrews on suicide bombing outside of Kabul airport: &#8220;I opened my eyes to marines dead or unconscious lying around me&#8230;The withdrawal was a catastrophe in my opinion. There was an inexcusable lack of accountability. and negligence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MGfUyC-HMtk\" title=\"&quot;The withdrawal was a catastrophe.&quot;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;(CSPAN)..Emotional testimony from Sgt. Vargas-Andrews on suicide bombing outside of Kabul airport: &#8220;I opened my eyes to marines dead or unconscious lying around me&#8230;The withdrawal was a catastrophe in my opinion. There was an inexcusable lack of accountability. and negligence.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/104-The-withdrawal-was-a-catastrophe.-YouTube-Google-Chrome-392023-90909-AM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156963,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156961\/revisions\/156963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/156962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}