{"id":29995,"date":"2017-11-15T12:41:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T20:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=29995"},"modified":"2017-11-15T12:41:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T20:41:59","slug":"war-on-isis-whose-side-are-we-really-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/15\/war-on-isis-whose-side-are-we-really-on\/","title":{"rendered":"War on ISIS \u2013 Whose Side Are We Really On?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Defense Secretary James Mattis said in a press conference that the US military would remain in Syria for the long haul, &#8220;as long as there are ISIS who want to fight&#8221; he said. He falsely claimed that the US operates in Syria with UN permission. According to a blockbuster BBC report, however, the US government was part of a secret deal to allow thousands of ISIS fighters and their families safe passage from Raqqa &#8212; with their weapons! What&#8217;s going on here? Join us for today&#8217;s Ron Paul Liberty Report:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T-auMFIsgtc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Defense Secretary James Mattis said in a press conference that the US military would remain in Syria for the long haul, &#8220;as long as there are ISIS who want to fight&#8221; he said. He falsely claimed that the US operates in Syria with UN permission. According to a blockbuster BBC report, however, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"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-29995","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\/29995","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\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29998,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29995\/revisions\/29998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29995"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=29995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}