{"id":430760,"date":"2021-08-16T10:01:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T04:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=430760"},"modified":"2021-08-16T11:00:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T05:30:23","slug":"speed-of-taliban-advance-stuns-countries-as-us-scrambles-to-airlift-embassy-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/speed-of-taliban-advance-stuns-countries-as-us-scrambles-to-airlift-embassy-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed of Taliban advance stuns countries as US scrambles to airlift embassy staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little more than a month ago, US President Joe Biden was telling reporters there was \u201czero\u201d chance of a parallel between the chaotic American withdrawal from Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 and the drawdown in Kabul as part of a deal with the Taliban. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Taliban is not the&#8230;North Vietnamese army. They\u2019re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There\u2019s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of [the US] embassy in&#8230;Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable,\u201d Biden said during a media interaction on July 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little more than a month ago, US President Joe Biden was telling reporters there was \u201czero\u201d chance of a parallel between the chaotic American withdrawal from Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 and the drawdown in Kabul as part of a deal with the Taliban. \u201cThe Taliban is not the&#8230;North Vietnamese army. They\u2019re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There\u2019s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of [the US] embassy in&#8230;Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable,\u201d Biden said during a media interaction on July 8.<\/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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430760","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=430760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}