{"id":342,"date":"2016-05-16T15:51:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2016-05-16T15:55:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:55:00","slug":"looming-disaster-of-doing-mosul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"Looming Disaster of &#8220;Doing Mosul&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If President Obama pushes ahead to expel ISIS from the major city of Mosul in Iraq, without much better preparation of the post-conflict circumstances, the aftermath with be a disaster. \u00a0Iraq was bad when he inherited the problem, it may well be worse when he hands it off to a successor. \u00a0Link below is to a piece written with Judy Miller for the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/05\/15\/the-next-us-victory-in-iraq-may-just-mean-another-crisis\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If President Obama pushes ahead to expel ISIS from the major city of Mosul in Iraq, without much better preparation of the post-conflict circumstances, the aftermath with be a disaster. \u00a0Iraq was bad when he inherited the problem, it may &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/?p=342\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[71,70,63,68],"tags":[18,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}