{"id":155703,"date":"2015-06-01T15:51:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T15:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=155703"},"modified":"2015-06-01T15:51:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T15:51:19","slug":"cia-chief-says-us-cant-destroy-isil-battlefield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/cia-chief-says-us-cant-destroy-isil-battlefield\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA chief says US can\u2019t destroy ISIL on battlefield"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan says the United States cannot destroy the ISIL terrorist group militarily on the battleground.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe firmly that we\u2019re not going to resolve this problem on the battlefield,\u201d Brennan said during an appearance on CBS\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation\u201d, aired on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The CIA chief argued that it was up to the Iraqi and Syrian governments to decide how they are going to restore peace in their nations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has to be a viable political process that\u2019s able to bring together the actors inside Iraq and Syria and for them to be able to decide how they are going to have a peaceful future,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it\u2019s a combination of military and political pressure that needs to be brought to bear,\u201d added Brennan, who served as chief counterterrorism adviser to President Barack Obama before heading the CIA.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/06\/01\/413827\/CIA-US-cannot-destroy-ISIL-on-battlefield-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan says the United States cannot destroy the ISIL terrorist group militarily on the battleground. \u201cI believe firmly that we\u2019re not going to resolve this problem on the battlefield,\u201d Brennan said during an appearance on CBS\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation\u201d, aired on Sunday. The CIA chief argued that it was up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-155703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}