{"id":199264,"date":"2007-08-20T05:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/20\/adviser-britain-withdrawal-could-end-up-ugly-military-news-news-from-iraq-photos-reports-from-the-war-military-times\/"},"modified":"2007-08-20T05:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T10:16:00","slug":"adviser-britain-withdrawal-could-end-up-ugly-military-news-news-from-iraq-photos-reports-from-the-war-military-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/20\/adviser-britain-withdrawal-could-end-up-ugly-military-news-news-from-iraq-photos-reports-from-the-war-military-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Adviser: Britain withdrawal could end up ugly &#8211; Military News, news from Iraq, photos, reports from the war &#8211; Military Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Biddle, who appears (quick Google) to be one of the more reality oriented members of the foreign policy establishment, though he worked on the current &#8220;surge&#8221; policy with Petraeus, is suggesting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2007\/08\/ap_britishwithdrawal_070819\/\">a British from Iraq will be ugly and violent<\/a>, with Shiite forces attacking them on the way out in order to create bragging rights that they &#8220;pushed the British out&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>If what he says is true, and I am not convinced, these people already largely control Basra, and there are very real advantages to facilitating the UK exit, it&#8217;s irrelevant, because it will be a factor whenever the troops pull out.<\/p>\n<p>We cannot fix what was broken in Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Biddle, who appears (quick Google) to be one of the more reality oriented members of the foreign policy establishment, though he worked on the current &#8220;surge&#8221; policy with Petraeus, is suggesting that a British from Iraq will be ugly and violent, with Shiite forces attacking them on the way out in order to create &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1063,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199264"}],"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=199264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}