{"id":18352,"date":"2014-01-12T05:39:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T05:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/emergentfutures-america-abandons-afghanistan-to\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T19:53:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T02:53:38","slug":"emergentfutures-america-abandons-afghanistan-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/emergentfutures-america-abandons-afghanistan-to\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-18352 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/emergentfutures-america-abandons-afghanistan-to\/attachment\/18355\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mz7fxelZWX1qz5ttno1_1280-1-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emergentfutures.tumblr.com\/post\/73056107390\/america-abandons-afghanistan-to-drug-lords\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">emergentfutures<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1 class=\"article-title\"><strong>America Abandons Afghanistan to Drug Lords<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>This year, Western troops will withdraw from Afghanistan after 13 years of war. They\u2019ll leave behind an undefeated enemy \u2013 as well as an Afghan government that\u2019s shaky, corrupt and only nominally democratic.<\/p>\n<p>But the West will be counting the true cost of the war for years to come \u2013 no longer in blood and treasure but in an epidemic of heroin addiction that\u2019s sweeping the world, driven by an explosion of Afghan opium production.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan\u2019s drug output is up by nearly 50 percent in the last year, according to a recent United Nations report. Afghan opium profits totaled $68 billion globally, but less than 10 percent of that remains in Afghanistan, said Jean-Luc Lemahieu, head of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).<\/p>\n<p>Full story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/america-abandons-afghanistan-drug-lords-225649#.Us8MQli3WdI.twitter\">Newsweek<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>emergentfutures: America Abandons Afghanistan to Drug Lords This year, Western troops will withdraw from Afghanistan after 13 years of war. They\u2019ll leave behind an undefeated enemy \u2013 as well as an Afghan government that\u2019s shaky, corrupt and only nominally democratic. But the West will be counting the true cost of the war for years to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4M0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18358,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18352\/revisions\/18358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}