{"id":196447,"date":"2008-04-25T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/25\/iraq\/"},"modified":"2008-04-25T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T21:35:00","slug":"iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/25\/iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The major Sunni parties have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/24\/world\/middleeast\/25iraq.html?_r=2&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin\">agreed in principle to rejoin the Iraqi government<\/a>, and Moktada al-Sadr has <a href=\"http:\/\/iht.com\/articles\/2008\/04\/25\/africa\/26iraq.php\">called on his supporters to &#8220;to wage open war against the Americans&#8221; but forbade them from &#8220;raising a hand against another Iraqi citizen.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how this will all play out.<\/p>\n<p>Since it&#8217;s Iraq and Maliki, both of whom have never failed to disappoint, I think that any concessions on the part of ISCI and Dawa would be primarily as a a part of a deliberate strategy to isolate Sadr in time for the elections, so wonders how long this Sunni-Shia rapproachment last, given that it is clearly seen as short term by Malki.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The major Sunni parties have agreed in principle to rejoin the Iraqi government, and Moktada al-Sadr has called on his supporters to &#8220;to wage open war against the Americans&#8221; but forbade them from &#8220;raising a hand against another Iraqi citizen.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure how this will all play out. Since it&#8217;s Iraq and Maliki, both &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[981,1063],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}