{"id":25141,"date":"2015-03-30T18:19:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T02:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=25141"},"modified":"2015-03-31T06:42:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T14:42:40","slug":"the-islamic-state-in-ramadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/30\/the-islamic-state-in-ramadi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Islamic State in Ramadi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though it could be interpreted as having a pro-US intervention spin on it, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/video\/under-siege-in-ramadi\">this brave reporting by David Enders<\/a> is still very valuable. And the calls for intervention by the Iraqis should be taken only as a measure of their desperation in their fight against the Islamic State, rather than a true call for intervention by the reporter passing on their wishes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to see if I can get David back on the show sometime this week.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xviegly-elk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though it could be interpreted as having a pro-US intervention spin on it, this brave reporting by David Enders is still very valuable. And the calls for intervention by the Iraqis should be taken only as a measure of their desperation in their fight against the Islamic State, rather than a true call for intervention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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":[668],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-25141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamic-state"],"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\/25141","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25147,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25141\/revisions\/25147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25141"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=25141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}