{"id":294202,"date":"2017-02-10T16:36:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T15:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumps-obsession-with-making-america-great-again-could-spark-war-with-iran-irish-writer\/"},"modified":"2017-02-10T16:36:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T15:36:03","slug":"trumps-obsession-with-making-america-great-again-could-spark-war-with-iran-irish-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumps-obsession-with-making-america-great-again-could-spark-war-with-iran-irish-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s obsession with \u2018Making America Great Again\u2019 could spark war with Iran: Irish writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump\u2019s obsession with \u201cMaking America Great Again\u201d combined with his demonization of certain countries could lead to war between the United States and Iran in a year or two, according to award-winning Irish writer and journalist Patrick Cockburn.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cockburn, who specializes in analysis of Iraq, Syria and US wars in the Middle East, made these remarks an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/donald-trump-middle-east-isis-about-to-start-a-war-a7572891.html?cmpid=facebook-post\">article <\/a>published by <em>The Independent<\/em> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Cockburn wrote that former US President Barack Obama deserves credit for escaping being sucked into \u201ca broader conflict against Iran,\u201d justifiably suspecting US allies in the Middle East like Saudi Arabia and (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council states were \u201ceager to see the US fight their battles for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Trump, who unlike Obama does not read books and does not have a sense of history, is not aware of the pitfalls the US needs to avoid a war with Iran,\u201d he noted. \u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170210\/072ed354-647f-4944-8d01-980ab4c51029.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Former US President Barack Obama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He wrote that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/02\/10\/509956\/Trumps-obsession-with-Making-America-Great-Again\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump\u2019s obsession with \u201cMaking America Great Again\u201d combined with his demonization of certain countries could lead to war between the United States and Iran in a year or two, according to award-winning Irish writer and journalist Patrick Cockburn. Cockburn, who specializes in analysis of Iraq, Syria and US wars in the Middle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":294203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-294202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294202","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=294202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}