{"id":76301,"date":"2021-07-06T09:39:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T13:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=76301"},"modified":"2021-07-06T09:39:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T13:39:55","slug":"how-continued-adherence-to-british-imperial-geopolitics-caused-the-afghan-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/blog\/2021\/07\/06\/how-continued-adherence-to-british-imperial-geopolitics-caused-the-afghan-debacle\/","title":{"rendered":"How Continued Adherence to British Imperial Geopolitics Caused the Afghan Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As news reports feature the threat of a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan following the withdrawal of U.S. forces, some voices in the U.S. Congress are questioning why we are leaving!\u00a0 The real question should be, &#8222;Why were we there for 20 years?\u00a0 Why did we waste more than $1 trillion and several thousand American lives on a war the Pentagon knew was unwinnable?&#8220;\u00a0 The followup question to that should be, &#8222;Why are we still using British geopolitical strategies to conduct our foreign and military policies?\u00a0 When will we learn our lesson &#8212; as Lyndon LaRouche always insisted &#8212; that the British Empire is our republic&#8217;s only true enemy?&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Continued Adherence to British Imperial Geopolitics Caused the Afghan Debacle\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LjyWhQlZtNc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As news reports feature the threat of a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan following the withdrawal of U.S. forces, some voices in the U.S. Congress are questioning why we are leaving!\u00a0 The real question should be, &#8222;Why were we there for 20 years?\u00a0 Why did we waste more than $1 trillion and several thousand American lives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":72826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,505,629],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-76301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein","category-updates","category-harley_schlanger_daily_update","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76327,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76301\/revisions\/76327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}