{"id":7728,"date":"2010-08-23T01:20:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T09:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=7728"},"modified":"2010-08-23T01:20:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T09:50:21","slug":"air-base-expansion-plans-reflect-long-term-occupation-of-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=7728","title":{"rendered":"Air base expansion plans reflect long-term occupation of Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reported that despite promises by the Obama Administration that the war in Afghanistan will end, U.S. investment in base expansion signal the opposite intention: a long-term military presence.\u00a0 This is similar to the reports of the 50,000 troops left behind in Iraq along with the thousands of mercenaries hired to provide security there.\u00a0 Ending &#8220;combat operations&#8221; does not mean that the wars or occupations are ending.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&gt;&gt;&lt;&lt;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/08\/22\/AR2010082201670.html?hpid=topnews\">http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/08\/22\/AR2010082201670.html?hpid=topnews<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Air base expansion plans reflect long-term investment in Afghanistan<\/h2>\n<p>By Walter Pincus<\/p>\n<p>Washington Post Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>Monday, August 23, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Three $100 million air base expansions in southern and northern Afghanistan illustrate Pentagon plans to continue building multimillion-dollar facilities in that country to support increased U.S. military operations well into the future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/08\/22\/AR2010082201670.html?hpid=topnews\">READ THE FULL ARTICLE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reported that despite promises by the Obama Administration that the war in Afghanistan will end, U.S. investment in base expansion signal the opposite intention: a long-term military presence.\u00a0 This is similar to the reports of the 50,000 troops left behind in Iraq along with the thousands of mercenaries hired to provide security &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=7728\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Air base expansion plans reflect long-term occupation of Afghanistan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2409],"class_list":["post-7728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-movements-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7730,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7728\/revisions\/7730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}