{"id":11920,"date":"2009-12-03T06:25:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T11:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11920"},"modified":"2009-12-03T06:25:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T11:25:37","slug":"malalai-joya-canada-must-withdraw-troops-from-afghanistan-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11920","title":{"rendered":"Malalai Joya: Canada Must Withdraw Troops From Afghanistan Immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Malalai Joya<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is clear now that the real motive of the U.S. and its allies, hidden behind the so-called \u201cwar on terror,\u201d was to convert Afghanistan into a military base in Central Asia and the capital of the world\u2019s opium drug trade. Ordinary Afghan people are being used in this chess game, and western taxpayers\u2019 money and the blood of soldiers is being wasted on this agenda that will only further destabilize the region.<\/p>\n<p>The recent so-called election in Afghanistan tells you all you need to know about what kind of \u201cdemocracy\u201d has been imposed by the occupation. It is ridiculous to Afghans that the Harper government and Defence Minister Peter MacKay have called this process a \u201csuccessful election.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialistproject.ca\/bullet\/282.php\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malalai Joya It is clear now that the real motive of the U.S. and its allies, hidden behind the so-called \u201cwar on terror,\u201d was to convert Afghanistan into a military base in Central Asia and the capital of the world\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11920\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-36g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11920"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11923,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11920\/revisions\/11923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}