{"id":2284,"date":"2020-03-03T12:50:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T12:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2284"},"modified":"2020-03-03T12:50:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T12:50:16","slug":"the-us-and-taliban-sign-agreement-meant-to-end-americas-longest-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2284","title":{"rendered":"The US and Taliban sign agreement meant to end America\u2019s longest war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Since the war in Afghanistan began in 2001, the US government has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/12\/09\/world\/middleeast\/afghanistan-war-cost.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spent $2 trillion<\/a>&nbsp;on the conflict, in which 3,500 American and NATO coalition troops have been killed and tens of thousands of Afghans have died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new agreement would put an end to that conflict, and includes a requirement that the Taliban find lasting peace with the Afghan government in exchange for the full withdrawal of troops \u2014 a requirement not present in all&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world\/2019\/9\/8\/20855310\/taliban-us-peace-deal-donald-trump-ghani-camp-david-kabul-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">past versions<\/a>&nbsp;of the deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world\/2020\/2\/29\/21158939\/us-taliban-sign-peace-deal-troops-afghanistan\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world\/2020\/2\/29\/21158939\/us-taliban-sign-peace-deal-troops-afghanistan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Since the war in Afghanistan began in 2001, the US government has spent $2 trillion on the conflict, in which 3,500 American and NATO coalition troops have been killed and tens of thousands of Afghans have died.<\/p>\n<p>The new agreement would put an end to that conflict, and includes a requirement that the Taliban find lasting peace with the Afghan government in exchange for the full withdrawal of troops \u2014 a requirement not present in all past versions of the deal.&#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":[435,31,392,158],"class_list":["post-2284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-afghanistan","tag-agreement","tag-peace","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284","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=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2286,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions\/2286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}