{"id":1971,"date":"2009-12-05T04:25:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T10:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=1971"},"modified":"2009-12-05T04:25:47","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T10:25:47","slug":"hillary-clinton-us-not-cutting-and-running-from-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/hillary-clinton-us-not-cutting-and-running-from-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton: US not cutting and running from Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/hillary-clinton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1972\" title=\"Hillary Clinton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/hillary-clinton-280x187.jpg\" alt=\"Hillary Clinton\" width=\"280\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/hillary-clinton-280x187.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/hillary-clinton-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/hillary-clinton-537x360.jpg 537w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/hillary-clinton.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday said the Obama Administration is not &#8220;cutting and running&#8221; from Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Absolutely not, I want to really stress that,&#8221; Clinton told CNN in an interview when asked if the US was &#8220;cutting and running&#8221; from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because our analysis of what happened in Afghanistan and Pakistan very clearly demonstrates that not only the US, but the international community sort of just said, &#8216;Okay, job is done, Soviet Union is gone&#8217;, and we walked away, leaving a very difficult and increasingly dangerous presence in both Afghanistan and Pakistan, a drug trade that flourished during that time period. There were many problems that we had to take some responsibility for, but we did not,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton said that she wants to make clear to people of both Afghanistan and Pakistan that the US was looking for a long-term partnership.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that Afghan President Hamid Karzai was within his rights to hold peace talks with Taliban leader Mullah Omar, Clinton said she would be skeptical of such talks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s the right of the president of a sovereign nation to talk with whomever he chooses to talk with. But we would be quite skeptical of the results of any such talks,&#8221; Clinton said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday said the Obama Administration is not &#8220;cutting and running&#8221; from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,30,80,63,118,101],"tags":[2939,2937,2936,2934,243,258,2933,2615,2935,2932],"class_list":["post-1971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-politics","tag-afghan-hamid-karzai","tag-afghan-president-hamid-karzai","tag-afghanistan-and-pakistan","tag-afghanistan-taliban","tag-hamid-karzai","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-hillary-clinton-afghanistan","tag-president-hamid-karzai","tag-taliban-afghanistan","tag-us-hillary-clinton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}