{"id":5075,"date":"2014-11-19T06:50:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T04:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/?p=5075"},"modified":"2014-11-19T06:50:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T04:50:22","slug":"just-say-no-to-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/2014\/11\/just-say-no-to-the-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Say No to the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"478\" data-total-count=\"478\">Re \u201c<a style=\"color: #326891;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/12\/opinion\/give-the-taliban-a-chance.html\">Give the Taliban\u00a0<\/a><a style=\"color: #326891;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/12\/opinion\/give-the-taliban-a-chance.html\">a chance<\/a>\u201d (Opinion, Nov. 12) by Jack Fairweather: We absolutely cannot \u201cgive the Taliban a chance.\u201d The return of the Taliban to government would be detrimental to women\u2019s rights, global security and democracy. The West has not imposed a vision for Afghanistan that is inconsistent with the desires of the Afghan people. This year, we Afghans experienced the first democratic transfer of power in our history; this was a significant step forward.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-2\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"359\" data-total-count=\"837\">Mr. Fairweather is correct in implying that the return of the Taliban would not be a \u201cbad thing\u201d \u2014 it would be much, much worse. Legitimizing a minority terrorist group that refuses to abide by international law would roll back over a decade\u2019s worth of gains and would be a slap in the face to Afghan women and victims of rights violations everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cGive the Taliban\u00a0a chance\u201d (Opinion, Nov. 12) by Jack Fairweather: We absolutely cannot \u201cgive the Taliban a chance.\u201d The return of the Taliban to government would be detrimental to women\u2019s rights, global security and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,90],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-5075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-editor-selection","tag-taliban","country-afghanistan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5076,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions\/5076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}