{"id":4037,"date":"2011-04-07T18:35:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T22:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4037"},"modified":"2011-04-10T13:41:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T17:41:13","slug":"afghanistan-off-the-front-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/04\/07\/afghanistan-off-the-front-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan off the front page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4038\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/04\/07\/afghanistan-off-the-front-page\/gnrl\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4038\" title=\"gnrl\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/04\/gnrl-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/04\/gnrl-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/04\/gnrl-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/04\/gnrl-450x337.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/04\/gnrl.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.net\/2011\/04\/07\/more-protests-in-kabul-condemn-koran-burning\/\">riots following the burning of a Koran in a Florida church<\/a>, the war in Afghanistan has been bumped from the headlines lately.<\/p>\n<p>Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, et.al., and the nuclear crisis and general recovery in Japan, and the looming government shutdown at home, have all made for an extraordinarily busy news month.<\/p>\n<p>But the war in Afghanistan goes on, of course, with Fort Drum playing a central role.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I attended a briefing by General James Terry, Fort Drum&#8217;s commander and currently the commander of coalition forces in the southern zone of Afghanistan.\u00a0 That includes the city of Kandahar, birthplace of the Taliban.\u00a0 Terry&#8217;s wrapping up his two week leave in U.S. and returns tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Terry&#8217;s basic message was that U.S. and coalition forces are &#8220;playing on home turf&#8221; now in the Kandahar area, having pushed out the insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>Monday on The 8 O&#8217;Clock Hour, I&#8217;ll have a full report.\u00a0 But for now, your thoughts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>How is the war going in your opinion?\u00a0 Do you agree with Senator Gillibrand, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/03\/15\/gillibrand-afghanistan_n_835739.html\">who wants to pick up the pace of U.S. withdrawl<\/a>?\u00a0 How has President Obama&#8217;s surge worked so far?\u00a0 Do you still support the effort?\u00a0 Did you ever?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite riots following the burning of a Koran in a Florida church, the war in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[997,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}