{"id":158083,"date":"2015-06-10T11:47:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T11:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=158083"},"modified":"2015-06-10T11:47:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T11:47:37","slug":"obama-reluctant-warrior-isil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/obama-reluctant-warrior-isil\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama is \u2018reluctant warrior\u2019 against ISIL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>The lack of a complete strategy by the US to defeat the ISIL terrorist group indicates President Barack Obama is a \u201creluctant warrior\u201d and wants to avoid another costly war, says a political commentator.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cObama is reluctant to have this mission creep, he sees it as a slippery slope that once again wants to get America embroiled in a bloody conflict in this country that costs America so dearly already,\u201d Dr. Brian Glyn Williams, a professor of Islamic History at the University of Massachusetts, told Press TV on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Obama\u2019s lack of a complete strategy stems largely from the fact that he is a reluctant warrior,\u201d said Williams, who also worked for the CIA\u2019s Counter Terrorism Center and the US Army\u2019s Information Operations team in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe remembers the heavy cost of the wars and the American people who voted him into office, voted him in part to end the very unpopular war in Iraq so he\u2019s very conscious of the bloody legacy and the high cost in terms of finances and money as well as lives and is very, very reluctant to return to this war zone,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/06\/10\/415134\/Obama-reluctant-warrior-ISIL\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lack of a complete strategy by the US to defeat the ISIL terrorist group indicates President Barack Obama is a \u201creluctant warrior\u201d and wants to avoid another costly war, says a political commentator. \u201cObama is reluctant to have this mission creep, he sees it as a slippery slope that once again wants to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-158083","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\/158083","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=158083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}