{"id":26458,"date":"2018-12-21T20:40:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T20:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26458"},"modified":"2018-12-21T20:40:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T20:40:24","slug":"can-the-us-be-a-dependable-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26458","title":{"rendered":"Can the US be a dependable ally?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"82\">\n<p>Retired general James Mattis was seen as a measure of calm and stability &#8211; in a White House swirling with chaos and unpredictability.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he has resigned as US Secretary of Defense, after disagreements on foreign policy with the president.<\/p>\n<p>His departure comes as Donald Trump ordered a withdrawal of US forces from Syria\u2026 and suggestions he&#8217;ll pull thousands out of Afghanistan too.<\/p>\n<p>In his resignation letter, Mattis said he believes in treating allies with respect.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s announcement certainly took the friends of US by surprise\u2026and left many wondering if it is a dependable ally.<\/p>\n<p>So with Mattis gone, who will now try and control an unpredictable president?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Imran Khan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>David DesRoches &#8211; professor of Near East studies at National Defense University<\/p>\n<p>Habib Wardak &#8211; founding member of Transparency Afghanistan and national security analyst\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Andreas Krieg &#8211; assistant professor at Defence Studies Dept., King&#8217;s College London<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired general James Mattis was seen as a measure of calm and stability &#8211; in a White House swirling with chaos and unpredictability. Now, he has resigned as US Secretary of Defense, after disagreements on foreign policy with the president. His departure comes as Donald Trump ordered a withdrawal of US forces from Syria\u2026 and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26458","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=26458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}