{"id":157052,"date":"2021-08-24T14:36:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=157052"},"modified":"2021-09-01T15:03:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T19:03:46","slug":"davidson-speaks-on-situation-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2021\/08\/24\/davidson-speaks-on-situation-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Davidson Speaks on Situation in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><div id=\"attachment_7106\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7106\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7106\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/07\/Davidson-Jason091-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Jason Davidson\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/07\/Davidson-Jason091-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/07\/Davidson-Jason091-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/07\/Davidson-Jason091-150x225.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-7106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Jason Davidson<\/p><\/div><p>Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Jason Davidson was interviewed about the situation in Afghanistan on LBC News in London.<\/p><p><em>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t personally think that it made sense from a strategic perspective for the United States or for Britain to stay in Afghanistan forever. Both countries have other important interests and we certainly have other things to be doing with our resources &hellip; particularly if you look at a situation that didn&rsquo;t really have the prospect of improving dramatically no matter how long we had stayed.&rdquo;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalplayer.com\/catchup\/lbcnews\/uk\/episodes\/BUsmqz1hAWZsBdTd37oh2ohqe\/\">Listen here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Jason Davidson was interviewed about the situation in Afghanistan on LBC News in London.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t personally think that it made sense from a strategic perspective for the United States or for Britain to stay in Afghanistan forever. Both countries have other important interests and we certainly have other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28559,"featured_media":7106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[9040,532],"class_list":["post-157052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-professional-notes","tag-department-of-political-science-and-international-affairs","tag-jdavidso","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}