{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"Obama administration gives free pass to alleged Afghan war criminal, Rashid Dostum","author_name":"Robert Maier","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article3749.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article3749.html'\u003EObama administration gives free pass to alleged Afghan war criminal, Rashid Dostum\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDespite spending many billions of dollars and nearly eight years in Afghanistan, Afghans don\u2019t trust the U.S. government.  This is why more American soldiers are dying there. \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\nAmerican rationale in Afghanistan is not clear to Afghans.  Under George W. Bush, the goal of the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was to destroy al-Qaeda by eliminating Osama bin-Laden and his cohorts.  When that failed, the goal shifted to the noble-sounding \u201cbuilding democracy.\u201d  With the Obama administration, it (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}