{"id":4516,"date":"2026-10-19T15:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T15:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/stars-and-stripes-hegseths-afghanistan-remarks-spark-backlash-from-us-veterans-a-16751\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T15:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T15:51:15","slug":"stars-and-stripes-hegseths-afghanistan-remarks-spark-backlash-from-us-veterans-a-16751","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/stars-and-stripes-hegseths-afghanistan-remarks-spark-backlash-from-us-veterans-a-16751\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars and Stripes: Hegseth\u2019s Afghanistan remarks spark backlash from US veterans, allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/theaters\/us\/2026-10-19\/hegseth-criticized-downplays-allies-afghanistan-23198809.html\">Hegseth\u2019s Afghanistan remarks spark backlash from US veterans, allies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Stars and Stripes<\/p>\n<p>Published: 2026-10-19 15:51 (UTC)<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/theaters\/us\/2026-10-19\/hegseth-criticized-downplays-allies-afghanistan-23198809.html\">https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/theaters\/us\/2026-10-19\/hegseth-criticized-downplays-allies-afghanistan-23198809.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hegseth\u2019s Afghanistan remarks spark backlash from US veterans, allies Source: Stars and Stripes Published: 2026-10-19 15:51 (UTC) Link: https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/theaters\/us\/2026-10-19\/hegseth-criticized-downplays-allies-afghanistan-23198809.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}