{"id":22610,"date":"2015-03-13T18:30:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T22:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22610"},"modified":"2015-03-13T18:30:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T22:30:48","slug":"obama%e2%80%99s-legacy-pieces-of-iraq-now-part-of-%e2%80%98greater-iran%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22610\/obama%e2%80%99s-legacy-pieces-of-iraq-now-part-of-%e2%80%98greater-iran%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s Legacy: Pieces of Iraq Now Part of \u2018Greater Iran\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s gotten so bad in Iraq that Iranian-backed militias are fighting ISIS soldiers for control of large swaths of territory. And while these two factions redraw the map of the Middle East, American military advisors and the Iraqi army have been rendered largely irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>That prompted Richard Haas, president of the Council of Foreign Relations, to give this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2015\/03\/13\/cfr_president_richard_haas_baghdad_and_southern_iraq_are_now_part_of_greater_iran.html \" target=\"_blank\">grim analysis<\/a>: \u201cI think [Iran] will win this battle, but\u2026 I think we have to understand, Baghdad and the south are now part of Greater Iran. This is what it is\u2026 \u2018Iraq\u2019 is over. Rest in peace. The era where you had an intact Iraq and an intact Syria is over. So what you\u2019re looking at is an Iraq where part of it is an extension of Iran\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this is why President Barack Obama is so repulsed by Senator <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/45-foreign-policy\/2500-tom-cotton-schools-obama-iran-leaders-on-the-constitution \" target=\"_blank\">Tom Cotton\u2019s letter to Iran<\/a>: It threatens our dependence on a known sponsor of terror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s gotten so bad in Iraq that Iranian-backed militias are fighting ISIS soldiers for control of large swaths of territory. And while these two factions redraw the map of the Middle East, American military advisors and the Iraqi army have been rendered largely irrelevant. That prompted Richard Haas, president of the Council of Foreign Relations, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,130,274,4578,2414,4380],"class_list":["post-22610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-isis","tag-syria","tag-tom-cotton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22610"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22616,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22610\/revisions\/22616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}