{"id":3166,"date":"2024-12-03T17:22:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T17:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-confirms-stalled-promotion-for-general-involved-in-afghanistan-withdrawal-2\/"},"modified":"2024-12-03T17:22:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T17:22:47","slug":"senate-confirms-stalled-promotion-for-general-involved-in-afghanistan-withdrawal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-confirms-stalled-promotion-for-general-involved-in-afghanistan-withdrawal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms stalled promotion for general involved in Afghanistan withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The promotion of President Joe Biden&rsquo;s pick to lead U.S. Army forces in Europe and Africa has cleared the Senate after an unexplained delay. The promotion of Lt. Gen. Christopher Donahue &mdash; who led the 82nd Airborne Division during the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan &mdash; to the rank of four-star general was approved quietly before the Senate adjourned&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/12\/02\/congress\/afghan-withdrawal-fallout-00192282\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The promotion of President Joe Biden&rsquo;s pick to lead U.S. Army forces in Europe and Africa has cleared the Senate after an unexplained delay. The promotion of Lt. Gen. Christopher Donahue &mdash; who led the 82nd Airborne Division during the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan &mdash; to the rank of four-star general was approved quietly before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}