{"id":314,"date":"2013-01-30T23:59:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T21:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beirutreporter.tv\/?p=314"},"modified":"2013-05-11T22:04:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T20:04:45","slug":"u-s-says-assad-will-lose-battle-eventually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beirutreporter.tv\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"U.S. says Assad will lose battle eventually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Comment on: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/News\/Politics\/2013\/Jan-30\/204304-us-says-assad-will-lose-battle-eventually.ashx\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;U.S. says Assad will lose battle eventually&#8221;<\/a> (Daily Star)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Syrian President Assad does not represent the whole government.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Ford&#8217;s comments point in the same direction as Russian Prime Minister Medvedev&#8217;s some weeks ago: Preserve the state and force Assad to quit sooner or later. Probably later, giving him enough time to strike a deal with the somewhat secular opposition and eliminate the Islamists.<\/p>\n<p>Still chances are good, Assad will stay for years if he doesn&#8217;t fall by the hand of an assassin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment on: &#8220;U.S. says Assad will lose battle eventually&#8221; (Daily Star) Syrian President Assad does not represent the whole government. Ambassador Ford&#8217;s comments point in the same direction as Russian Prime Minister Medvedev&#8217;s some weeks ago: Preserve the state and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/beirutreporter.tv\/?p=314\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[12,143,189,190,195,7,58],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","tag-assad","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-islamist","tag-robert-ford","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-syria","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beirutreporter.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beirutreporter.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beirutreporter.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beirutreporter.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beirutreporter.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/beirutreporter.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/beirutreporter.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beirutreporter.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beirutreporter.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beirutreporter.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}