{"id":234166,"date":"2016-03-26T18:59:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T18:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/feeling-threatened-by-daesh-us-backpedalling-on-past-policies-analyst\/"},"modified":"2016-03-26T18:59:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T18:59:46","slug":"feeling-threatened-by-daesh-us-backpedalling-on-past-policies-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/feeling-threatened-by-daesh-us-backpedalling-on-past-policies-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling threatened by Daesh, US backpedalling on past policies: Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"75\">\n<p><strong>US President Barack Obama\u2019s pledge to step up intelligence cooperation against the Daesh Takfiri terrorists signals America\u2019s serious concerns about the terror group which was once viewed by Washington as a \u201cweapon\u201d against Syria\u2019s legitimate government, says an American political analyst.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In his weekly address from the White House on Saturday, Obama expressed his condolences to the families of the victims of the recent attacks in the Belgian capital of Brussels, noting that the US is working to prevent similar attacks against America and its allies in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Keith Preston, the chief editor and director of attackthesystem.com, has told Press TV that this marks a significant departure of previous US policies against Daesh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States was hesitant to take their strong actions against ISIL in the Middle East, because they view ISIL as a destabilizing force,\u201d Preston said Saturday. \u201cA force that can be used to destabilize&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/03\/26\/457712\/US-Daesh-Syria-Russia-Obama-Preston\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Barack Obama\u2019s pledge to step up intelligence cooperation against the Daesh Takfiri terrorists signals America\u2019s serious concerns about the terror group which was once viewed by Washington as a \u201cweapon\u201d against Syria\u2019s legitimate government, says an American political analyst. In his weekly address from the White House on Saturday, Obama expressed his condolences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-234166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234166","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=234166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}