{"id":12477,"date":"2011-10-24T06:57:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T14:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=12477"},"modified":"2011-10-24T09:04:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T17:04:37","slug":"puppets-breaking-strings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/24\/puppets-breaking-strings\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppets breaking strings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Iraqis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/24\/was-it-the-promise-or-was-it-the-sofa\/\">find the back-door to getting U.S. troops out of their country<\/a>, is Afghan President Hamid Karzai trying a different tack &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&quot;God forbid, if a war breaks between Pakistan and America, we will side (with) Pakistan,&quot; Karzai said, according to a transcript released yesterday by his office. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2011-10-24\/karzai-says-afghanistan-would-help-pakistan-against-u-s-attack.html\"> &#8211;Karzai Says Afghanistan Would Help Pakistan Against U.S. Attack &#8211; Businessweek  <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lUtqGo7SEmE&amp;feature=player_embedded\">VIDEO: Karzai vows to support Pakistan vs. U.S. if war<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are the puppets breaking their strings?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Iraqis find the back-door to getting U.S. troops out of their country, is Afghan President Hamid Karzai trying a different tack &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &quot;God forbid, if a war breaks between Pakistan and America, we will side (with) Pakistan,&quot; Karzai said, according to a transcript released yesterday by his office. &#8211;Karzai Says Afghanistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,7,95,167,3],"tags":[459],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-empire","category-intervention","category-military-industrial-complex","category-news","tag-hamid-karzai"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12477"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12488,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12477\/revisions\/12488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12477"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}