{"id":423344,"date":"2021-06-30T10:44:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T05:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=423344"},"modified":"2021-06-30T11:34:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T06:04:35","slug":"as-the-us-pulls-out-of-afghanistan-kabuls-airport-is-a-final-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/as-the-us-pulls-out-of-afghanistan-kabuls-airport-is-a-final-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"As the US pulls out of Afghanistan, Kabul\u2019s Airport is a final stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Hamid Karzai International Airport has been a main gateway to Afghanistan, an aspirational symbol of civilian life and normalcy amid military bases, warplanes and the scars of decades of fighting in the surrounding countryside.<\/p>\n<p>But now the airport, known to all as Kabul International, has become the last stand in America\u2019s 20-year campaign in Afghanistan. <\/p>\n<p>If the United States and its allies can complete a deal for Turkey to keep forces in place to secure the airport, President Joe Biden can go ahead with his plan to maintain the US Embassy \u2014 and diplomatic missions from allied countries \u2014 even after combat troops for the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization depart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Hamid Karzai International Airport has been a main gateway to Afghanistan, an aspirational symbol of civilian life and normalcy amid military bases, warplanes and the scars of decades of fighting in the surrounding countryside. But now the airport, known to all as Kabul International, has become the last stand in America\u2019s 20-year campaign in Afghanistan. If the United States and its allies can complete a deal for Turkey to keep forces in place to secure the airport, President Joe Biden can go ahead with his plan to maintain the US Embassy \u2014 and diplomatic missions from allied countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}