{"id":11748,"date":"2010-01-06T11:26:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T18:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=11748"},"modified":"2010-01-06T11:47:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T18:47:02","slug":"bloody-year-beginning-dooms-obamas-afghanistan-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2010\/01\/06\/bloody-year-beginning-dooms-obamas-afghanistan-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloody Year Beginning Dooms Obama&#8217;s Afghanistan Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-010610\/2010_01_06_erlich.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-010610\/2010_01_06_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=55% src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/a\/p\/afp\/20100104\/capt.photo_1262589236562-3-0.jpg?x=400&#038;y=257&#038;q=85&#038;sig=uZQJ8szYJomhcVHEHrERwQ--\" alt=\"afghanistan\" \/>With the new year barely begun, violence in Afghanistan has exploded. Just this morning a blast in Nangahar province killed four Afghan children and 3 US soldiers, and wounded dozens. Yesterday the US and NATO were accused by the Afghan government of killing 7 civilians including 3 children in an air strike in Helmand province. The accusation comes on the heels of another charge made a week earlier in Kunar Province where, during a night time raid, US troops allegedly shot and killed ten civilians including 8 young boys. Hundreds of Afghans including university students protested against the US in Kabul and Jalalabad on Monday. And, as if this wasn&#8217;t enough bad news for the US war effort, on Sunday reports came in of 8 people being killed at a CIA base by a suicide bomber who infiltrated the camp. The new year was also marked with the deaths of four US soldiers from a roadside bomb, starting off the year&#8217;s bloody tally. What does the violence bode for President Obama&#8217;s recently announced strategy of troop escalation in Afghanistan?<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Reese Erlich, Freelance foreign correspondent, who has covered the Middle East for 23 years and is the author of three books. His fourth, &#8220;Conversations with Terrorists,&#8221; will be published in September 2010.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the new year barely begun, violence in Afghanistan has exploded. Just this morning a blast in Nangahar province killed four Afghan children and 3 US soldiers, and wounded dozens. Yesterday the US and NATO were accused by the Afghan government of killing 7 civilians including 3 children in an air strike in Helmand province. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}