{"id":1317,"date":"2004-02-26T11:46:31","date_gmt":"2004-02-26T16:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1317.html"},"modified":"2004-02-26T11:46:31","modified_gmt":"2004-02-26T16:46:31","slug":"the-taliban-sure-is-confusing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-taliban-sure-is-confusing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Taliban sure is confusing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/site\/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&#038;b=8473\">Progress Report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not seeing any indication the Taliban pose any military threat to Afghanistan.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/World\/ap20040226_698.html\">2\/25\/04<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taliban attacks &#8220;have reached their highest level since the collapse of the Taliban government. [They] are a serious threat, potentially eroding commitments to stability and progress in Afghanistan.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Defense Intelligence Agency chief Adm. Lowell Jacoby, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-0402250154feb25,1,5661318.story\">2\/24\/04<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s Progress Report: &#8220;I&#8217;m not seeing any indication the Taliban pose any military threat to Afghanistan.&#8221; &#8211; Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 2\/25\/04 Taliban attacks &#8220;have reached their highest level since the collapse of the Taliban government. [They] are a serious threat, potentially eroding commitments to stability and progress in Afghanistan.&#8221; &#8211; Defense Intelligence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}