{"id":26294,"date":"2018-12-20T19:23:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T19:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26294"},"modified":"2018-12-20T19:23:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T19:23:47","slug":"in-syria-withdrawal-trump-discards-advice-from-allies-and-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26294","title":{"rendered":"In Syria withdrawal, Trump discards advice from allies and officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Washington (CNN)<\/cite>Seated at the head of his Situation Room conference table, President Donald Trump was adamant: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/04\/04\/politics\/donald-trump-syria-troops\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">American troops must come home from Syria<\/a>. He had just announced as much to a crowd in Ohio. The assembled military and national security advisers told him the move was rash and unwise. So he gave them six months.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Eight months later, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/19\/politics\/us-syria-withdrawal\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">planning for the withdrawal is now underway<\/a> &#8212; against the advice of those same officials, who warned in April that Russia and Iran would gain stronger footholds in Syria when the US presence there evaporates. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">On Capitol Hill, even some of Trump&#8217;s GOP allies were warning of a grave mistake. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington (CNN)Seated at the head of his Situation Room conference table, President Donald Trump was adamant: American troops must come home from Syria. He had just announced as much to a crowd in Ohio. The assembled military and national security advisers told him the move was rash and unwise. So he gave them six months.Eight&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}