{"id":14615,"date":"2012-04-04T08:24:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T16:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=14615"},"modified":"2012-04-04T08:24:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T16:24:22","slug":"as-washington-aids-the-syrian-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/04\/as-washington-aids-the-syrian-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"As Washington Aids the Syrian Opposition&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfr.org\/syria\/merits-syrian-cease-fire\/p27832?cid=nlc-dailybrief-daily_news_brief-link6-20120404\">Ed Husain, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the Syrian opposition, it&#8217;s no exaggeration to say that there are Saudi Salafis, as well as al-Qaeda elements, and others who are included toward more extreme versions of religiosity present in that conflict. Given that we don&#8217;t really know who the Syrian opposition is composed of in detail, how wise is it to then bring down another regime and put in its place yet another Muslim Brotherhood-led government?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/middleeast\/syria\/9174519\/Britain-to-double-support-to-Syrian-opposition.html\">Priest from the Syrian district of\u00a0Hamidiya:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Some Christians who tried to escape a week ago were stopped from leaving by the rebels and were instead forced to go to a mosque to act as shields,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They thought that, because Christians support Assad, the government would not attack them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Husain, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations: In the Syrian opposition, it&#8217;s no exaggeration to say that there are Saudi Salafis, as well as al-Qaeda elements, and others who are included toward more extreme versions of religiosity present in that conflict. Given that we don&#8217;t really know who the Syrian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"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":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"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\/14615","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\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14616,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14615\/revisions\/14616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14615"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}