{"id":3804,"date":"2021-08-23T10:21:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T10:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=3804"},"modified":"2021-08-23T10:21:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T10:21:35","slug":"should-the-west-have-withdrawn-from-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2021\/08\/23\/should-the-west-have-withdrawn-from-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Should the West have withdrawn from Afghanistan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Dr Phillip Cunliffe took part in &#8216;The Clash&#8217; a news panel on new channel GBNews hosted by Dan Wootton to debate whether Biden and Johnson were correct to &#8216;bring our boys back home.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>Twenty years after &#8216;The War on Terror&#8217; and Afghanistan is back in Taliban command. Were the UK right to withdraw troops when they did?<\/p>\n<p>Sharing a <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=59aa2526-5a8c-44dc-a09f-5d2d249b0789\">panel<\/a> with Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood and Craig Moynihan, an Afghanistan veteran, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/508\/cunliffe-philip\">Dr Phillip Cunliffe, <\/a>Senior Lecturer in International Conflict discussed the withdrawal of U.S. and U.K troops from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>As might be expected from this controversial new TV channel, the positions of the panel were not what you might expect from them on this show hosted by Dan Wootton.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=59aa2526-5a8c-44dc-a09f-5d2d249b0789\">Watch the full news panel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Phillip Cunliffe took part in &#8216;The Clash&#8217; a news panel on new channel GBNews hosted by Dan Wootton to debate whether Biden and Johnson &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2021\/08\/23\/should-the-west-have-withdrawn-from-afghanistan\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":3805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131000],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3804"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3824,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions\/3824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}