{"id":117112,"date":"2021-08-14T23:16:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T05:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117112"},"modified":"2021-08-14T16:13:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T23:13:16","slug":"weak-leadership-of-president-joe-biden-open-gate-for-taliban-major-threat-looming-for-sub-continent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/14\/weak-leadership-of-president-joe-biden-open-gate-for-taliban-major-threat-looming-for-sub-continent\/","title":{"rendered":"WEAK LEADERSHIP OF PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN OPEN GATE FOR TALIBAN-MAJOR THREAT LOOMING FOR SUB-CONTINENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Taliban has not wasted any time in trying to capitalize on the weak\nleadership of President Joe Biden.&nbsp;&nbsp; Kabul is now within striking distance&nbsp;&nbsp;\nThe election of Joe Biden was a great relief for Taliban&nbsp; who could not\nchallenge during the Presidency of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to Islamic domination, Buddhism was a major player in\nAfganistan.&nbsp; Today the&nbsp; Buddhism has vanished&nbsp; in similar fashion\nto that of Indonesia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though &nbsp;the Rajapakse Leadership in Sri Lanka has successfully\ndefeated the world worst terrorists, the Tamil Tigers, the world super powers\nhave failed miserably to defeat Taliban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Kabul is taken over by the terrorists, the terrorists worldwide,\nincluding Tamil Tigers, will raise its head, within a short period of\ntime.&nbsp; The Tamil Tigers are having close links with the Taliban\nTerrorists,&nbsp; it will move its logistic operations to Afganistan on a broad\nbasis, with the moral support of Taliban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Taliban is no longer considered a terrorist organization by the United\nNations Security Council.&nbsp; It is now clear the UNSC has underestimated the\nstrength of Taliban.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regardless of strong criticisms against the former President Donald\nTrump, he has been able to keep the Terrorists in their places in Afganistan as\nwell as in middle-east. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Middle-East, Central Asia and South East Asia will be targeted by\nthe terrorists, if Taliban successfully take over Afganistan.&nbsp;\nUnfortunately, the President Joe Biden is notoriously slow in decision making,\nhas so far not been able to create a positive impression on his Leadership and\nNegotiation Skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE Taliban has not wasted any time in trying to capitalize on the weak leadership of President Joe Biden.&nbsp;&nbsp; Kabul is now within striking distance&nbsp;&nbsp; The election of Joe Biden was a great relief for Taliban&nbsp; who could not challenge during the Presidency of Donald Trump. Prior to Islamic domination, Buddhism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}