{"id":4326,"date":"2010-07-26T10:17:49","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T15:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4326"},"modified":"2010-07-26T10:17:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T15:17:49","slug":"afghanistan-war-logs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/07\/26\/afghanistan-war-logs\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan war logs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Analysis of leak incident\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/jul\/26\/war-logs-wikileaks-rebuts-criticism\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Afghanistan War Logs<\/strong><\/a> article on the UK Guardian web site is an intelligent response to the leaking of classified military documents.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The White House national security adviser, General Jim Jones, stressed that the documents related to a period from January 2004 to December 2009, during the administration of President George Bush and before President Obama ordered a <q>surge<\/q> in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><q>President Obama announced a new strategy with a substantial increase in resources for Afghanistan, and increased focus on al-Qaida and Taliban safe havens in Pakistan, precisely because of the grave situation that had developed over several years,<\/q>he said.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nIn the US, the chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee and  former Democrat presidential candidate, John Kerry, responded to the  leak with a direct challenge to the administration. <q>However illegally  these documents came to light, they raise serious questions about the  reality of America&#8217;s policy toward Pakistan and Afghanistan,<\/q> he said.<\/p>\n<p><q>Those  policies are at a critical stage and these documents may very well  underscore the stakes and make the calibrations needed to get the policy  right.<\/q><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Afghanistan War Logs article on the UK Guardian web site is an intelligent response to the leaking of classified military documents. The White House national security adviser, General Jim Jones, stressed that the documents related to a period from January 2004 to December 2009, during the administration of President George Bush and before President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4327,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions\/4327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}