{"id":45647,"date":"2023-07-18T19:28:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T19:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/07\/18\/mercer-and-duncan-smith-on-afghanistan-and-taliban-comments\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T19:28:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T19:28:47","slug":"mercer-and-duncan-smith-on-afghanistan-and-taliban-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=45647","title":{"rendered":"Mercer and Duncan Smith on Afghanistan and Taliban comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Two Tory MPs debated the comments of a Conservative colleague about Afghanistan being &#8220;peaceful and stable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">During a statement on Afghan resettlement, Iain Duncan Smith said Tobias Ellwood\u2019s remarks were \u201cnot a very welcome statement&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer said the Taliban murdered his friends, it represented a \u201cserious threat to human rights&#8221; and criticised its treatment of women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/topics\/c8nq32jw5r5t\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">BBC coverage of Afghanistan<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-66234651?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Two Tory MPs debated the comments of a Conservative colleague about Afghanistan being &#8220;peaceful and stable&#8221;. During a statement on Afghan resettlement, Iain Duncan Smith said Tobias Ellwood\u2019s remarks &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}