{"id":5137,"date":"2010-05-11T10:48:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T15:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=5137"},"modified":"2010-05-11T10:49:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T15:49:01","slug":"a-sustainable-afghanistan-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=5137","title":{"rendered":"A Sustainable Afghanistan Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]Matt Yglesias makes <a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2010\/05\/afghanistans-budget.php\">the essential point regarding our Afghanistan policy<\/a>, illustrating it with this chart:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whatever this may or may not be creating, it\u2019s not a sustainable and legitimate government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Afghan Budget Graphic\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2parse.com\/\/images\/afghanbudget-1.jpg?resize=500%2C377\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There simply is no exit plan.<\/p>\n<p>Yet this isn&#8217;t tarred with the same politics as the bailout of Wall Street or Greece because the populist right responds first and foremost to invocations of war and patriotism &#8212; and only secondarily to the invocation of moochers. And so the pressure to create a sustainable structure and stop the incessant bailout isn&#8217;t there. Instead, the populist right is pressuring Obama to stay until&#8230;.we win&#8230;What we might win is never quite explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]Matt Yglesias makes the essential point regarding our Afghanistan policy, illustrating it with this chart: Whatever this may or may not be creating, it\u2019s not a sustainable and legitimate government. There simply is no exit plan. Yet this isn&#8217;t tarred with the same politics as the bailout of Wall Street or Greece because the populist [&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":[2851,367,1285,458,9],"tags":[782],"class_list":["post-5137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan-foreign-policy","category-national-security","category-the-bush-legacy","category-the-opinionsphere","category-the-war-on-terrorism","tag-matt-yglesias"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-1kR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137","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=5137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5140,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions\/5140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}