{"id":323369,"date":"2017-08-26T21:38:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T20:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/defense-secretary-praises-us-soldiers-power-of-intimidation\/"},"modified":"2017-08-26T21:38:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T20:38:35","slug":"defense-secretary-praises-us-soldiers-power-of-intimidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/defense-secretary-praises-us-soldiers-power-of-intimidation\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense Secretary praises US soldiers\u2019 \u2018power of intimidation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Pentagon chief James Mattis gives a pep talk to American soldiers serving outside the United States, urging them to \u201chold the line.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US defense secretary was seen speaking to US troops in an unknown location in a video published recently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur country right now, it\u2019s got problems we don\u2019t have in the military,\u201d Mattis said. \u201cYou just hold the line until our country gets back to understanding and respecting each other and showing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure class=\"image\" style=\"display:inline-block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170826\/f40dbb2f-9fc1-4bab-bd68-422d62e53ceb.jpg\" width=\"555\"\/><figcaption>This AFP file photo taken on August 13, 2017 shows demonstrators protesting against hate, white supremacy groups and US President Donald Trump in Chicago, Illinois.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>He made the comments amid national turmoil following deadly violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>The president has been under fire due to his failure to immediately condemn the recent tragedy, in which a driver plowed into demonstrators protesting against white supremacists, killing a young woman&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/08\/26\/533052\/Mattis-urges-troops-to-hold-the-line-for-now\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentagon chief James Mattis gives a pep talk to American soldiers serving outside the United States, urging them to \u201chold the line.\u201d The US defense secretary was seen speaking to US troops in an unknown location in a video published recently. \u201cOur country right now, it\u2019s got problems we don\u2019t have in the military,\u201d Mattis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":323370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-323369","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\/323369","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=323369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}