{"id":19767,"date":"2025-10-01T20:06:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19767"},"modified":"2025-10-01T20:06:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:06:59","slug":"the-government-was-lying-to-you-about-afghanistan-dan-krauss-has-the-receipts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19767","title":{"rendered":"The Government Was Lying to You About Afghanistan. Dan Krauss Has the Receipts."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;At the beginning of the war, the Taliban were almost completely routed, and the U.S. military could have left from a position of strength. The new Afghan republic announced that it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/united-states\/americas-missed-chance-afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">had an offer<\/a>&nbsp;from the Taliban to surrender in exchange for amnesty and a chance to participate in politics. But the Bush administration&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/united-states\/americas-missed-chance-afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">turned down<\/a>&nbsp;that offer, settling for nothing less than total, unconditional victory.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/09\/22\/the-government-was-lying-to-you-about-afghanistan-dan-krauss-has-the-receipts\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/09\/22\/the-government-was-lying-to-you-about-afghanistan-dan-krauss-has-the-receipts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;At the beginning of the war, the Taliban were almost completely routed, and the U.S. military could have left from a position of strength. The new Afghan republic announced that it had an offer from the Taliban to surrender in exchange for amnesty and a chance to participate in politics. But the Bush administration turned down that offer, settling for nothing less than total, unconditional victory.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[435,552,167,132,172,391,259,108,115,619,158,1497],"class_list":["post-19767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-afghanistan","tag-conflict","tag-government","tag-lies","tag-lying","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorists","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19768,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19767\/revisions\/19768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}