{"id":189344,"date":"2015-10-07T11:29:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T11:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=189344"},"modified":"2015-10-07T11:29:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T11:29:54","slug":"clinton-appealing-us-war-hawks-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/clinton-appealing-us-war-hawks-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton appealing to US war hawks: Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>US Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton\u2019s support for a no-fly zone over Syria is an attempt to \u201cgain relevance\u201d and appeal to American war hawks, says a counter-terrorism analyst.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHillary Clinton is in a dire predicament in her presidential ambitions, quickly evaporating and disappearing into the sunshine of revelations of what she has done and who she really is,\u201d Scott Bennett said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The former US Army psychological warfare officer made the comments in reaction to Clinton\u2019s remarks in which she expressed support for the idea of a no-fly zone over Syria with Russia\u2019s help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s complicated and the Russians would have to be part of it, or it wouldn\u2019t work,\u201d Clinton said Tuesday at a campaign event in Davenport, Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett told Press TV he believes Clinton has become irrelevant in the eyes of the American public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is desperately flailing about in trying to gain relevance,\u201d he said. \u201cShe is trying to gain the support of American war hawks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said Clinton is trying to position herself as a \u201cstrong voice\u201d for the US-backed militants crossing borders into the Arab country, while seeking to appeal to a liberal base who favor close ties with Russia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/10\/07\/432371\/Scott-Bennett-Hillary-Clinton-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton\u2019s support for a no-fly zone over Syria is an attempt to \u201cgain relevance\u201d and appeal to American war hawks, says a counter-terrorism analyst. \u201cHillary Clinton is in a dire predicament in her presidential ambitions, quickly evaporating and disappearing into the sunshine of revelations of what she has done and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1616,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-189344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-usa-news","10":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189344","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=189344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}