{"id":3250,"date":"2009-09-23T12:04:46","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T16:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3250"},"modified":"2009-09-23T12:04:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T16:04:46","slug":"obamas-shifting-afghan-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/09\/23\/obamas-shifting-afghan-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s shifting Afghan policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama <a title=\"reportedly\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/23\/world\/asia\/23policy.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly<\/a> is looking at alternatives to a major troop increase in Afghanistan, including possibly scaling back U.S. forces and refocusing on chasing Al Qaeda there and in Pakistan.\u00a0 Journalism Professor <a title=\"Bob Zelnick\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/robert_zelnick.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Zelnick<\/a>, a former ABC News Pentagon correspondent, has reservations about the shift in policy.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Bowing to political pressure from his own party&#8217;s left, the president appears to be galloping toward undisguised defeat in Afghanistan.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Bob Zelnick, 617-353-5007, <a href=\"mailto:bzelnick@bu.edu\">bzelnick@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama reportedly is looking at alternatives to a major troop increase in Afghanistan, including possibly scaling back U.S. forces and refocusing on chasing Al Qaeda there and in Pakistan.\u00a0 Journalism Professor Bob Zelnick, a former ABC News Pentagon correspondent, has reservations about the shift in policy. &#8220;Bowing to political pressure from his own party&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3252,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions\/3252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}