{"id":2540,"date":"2009-03-27T13:49:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T18:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2009-03-27T13:49:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T18:49:50","slug":"outlasting-america-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=2540","title":{"rendered":"Outlasting America in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/03\/the-region-as-a.html\">Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s take on Afghanistan<\/a> strikes me as the sad but honest truth of the matter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>America&#8217;s relatively tiny stake [in Afghanistan] means that we will always be outlasted by those with deeper commitments, wider knowledge and much greater fanaticism. And yet we plow on &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It happened before &#8211; after the forerunners of the Taliban drove the Soviet Union from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s take on Afghanistan strikes me as the sad but honest truth of the matter: America&#8217;s relatively tiny stake [in Afghanistan] means that we will always be outlasted by those with deeper commitments, wider knowledge and much greater fanaticism. And yet we plow on &#8230; It happened before &#8211; after the forerunners of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,367,458,9],"tags":[363,58],"class_list":["post-2540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-national-security","category-the-opinionsphere","category-the-war-on-terrorism","tag-afghanistan","tag-andrew-sullivan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-EY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}