{"id":37087,"date":"2021-03-20T09:14:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T17:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=37087"},"modified":"2021-03-20T09:14:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T17:14:05","slug":"former-ambassador-robert-ford-on-the-us-role-in-syrias-10-year-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/20\/former-ambassador-robert-ford-on-the-us-role-in-syrias-10-year-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Ambassador Robert Ford on the US&nbsp;Role in Syria&#8217;s 10-Year War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Pushback with Aaron Mat\u00e9 at <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/\">The Grayzone<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On the 10-year anniversary of the Syrian war, former US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford speaks to Aaron Mat\u00e9 about the roots of the conflict, the US role, and why he now supports the withdrawal of US forces. <\/p>\n<p>Guest: Robert Ford, retired US diplomat who served as US Ambassador to Syria from 2011 to 2014. <\/p>\n<p>[There is some inaudible audio in the first half of the interview. Press the &#8220;CC&#8221; icon on the video to turn on closed captioning. <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2021\/03\/20\/fmr-ambassador-robert-ford-on-the-us-role-in-syrias-10-year-war\/\">Full transcript is here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dlIa5uRC5oM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.com\/grayzone\">Support The Grayzone at Patreon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Pushback with Aaron Mat\u00e9 at The Grayzone: On the 10-year anniversary of the Syrian war, former US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford speaks to Aaron Mat\u00e9 about the roots of the conflict, the US role, and why he now supports the withdrawal of US forces. Guest: Robert Ford, retired US diplomat who served as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"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-37087","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\/37087","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\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37087"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37089,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37087\/revisions\/37089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37087"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=37087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}