{"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\/es\/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, \u00abWhy 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?\u00bb\u00a0 The followup question to that should be, \u00abWhy 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?\u00bb<\/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, \u00abWhy 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":[65,538,629],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-76301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein-ru","category-updates-ru","category-harley_schlanger_daily_update","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76327,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76301\/revisions\/76327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}