{"id":6973,"date":"2022-01-08T15:15:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T15:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6973"},"modified":"2022-01-08T15:15:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T15:15:14","slug":"trust-was-gone-former-afghan-official-recounts-his-governments-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6973","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Trust was gone\u2019: Former Afghan official recounts his government\u2019s collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;Afghanistan\u2019s government lost trust in the United States because of the Trump administration\u2019s negotiations with the Taliban and the Biden administration\u2019s insistence on withdrawing its forces, a former Afghan official said Sunday in describing his government\u2019s collapse earlier this year.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;Mohib told Brennan the decision was made to leave when it became clear that the military had largely melted away and the police had not shown up for work. \u201cWe had to make a decision that was right for Afghanistan,\u201d Mohib said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For his part, Mohib said the Afghan government expected more from the United States, but that his country was betrayed by the U.S. government negotiating with the Taliban independently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat happened was the rug was pulled under the Afghans\u2019 feet,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cThe decision to talk directly and engage the Taliban and make a deal with the Taliban that didn\u2019t include the Afghan government was protested.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/12\/19\/afghanistan-collapse-trust-biden-trump-525640\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/12\/19\/afghanistan-collapse-trust-biden-trump-525640<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Afghanistan\u2019s government lost trust in the United States because of the Trump administration\u2019s negotiations with the Taliban and the Biden administration\u2019s insistence on withdrawing its forces, a former Afghan official said Sunday in describing his government\u2019s collapse earlier this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mohib told Brennan the decision was made to leave when it became clear that the military had largely melted away and the police had not shown up for work. \u201cWe had to make a decision that was right for Afghanistan,\u201d Mohib said.<br \/>\nFor his part, Mohib said the Afghan government expected more from the United States, but that his country was betrayed by the U.S. government negotiating with the Taliban independently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened was the rug was pulled under the Afghans\u2019 feet,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cThe decision to talk directly and engage the Taliban and make a deal with the Taliban that didn\u2019t include the Afghan government was protested.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[435,552,272,355,314,259,1049,108,619,158],"class_list":["post-6973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-afghanistan","tag-conflict","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-military","tag-taliban","tag-terrorism","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6973","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=6973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6974,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6973\/revisions\/6974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}