{"id":6550,"date":"2010-08-02T16:52:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T20:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6550"},"modified":"2011-01-19T12:22:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T17:22:42","slug":"obama-reaffirms-iraq-drawdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/08\/02\/obama-reaffirms-iraq-drawdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama reaffirms Iraq drawdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6551\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/08\/U.S.-military-soldiers-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. military soldiers\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\" \/>President Obama says the 7-year-old Iraq war soon will be <a title=\"shifting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/08\/02\/AR2010080202710.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"_blank\">shifting<\/a> from a military to an diplomatic mission as U.S. troops are drawn down.\u00a0 Political science Professor <a title=\"Graham Wilson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/people\/faculty\/professorgrahamwilson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Wilson<\/a>, author of &#8220;<em>Only in America? American Politics in comparative Perspective<\/em>,&#8221; says Americans seem weary of the war and ready go see U.S. military engagement end.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFrom indicators, such as failures in electricity supply and the inability of Iraqis to form a government following the last elections there, it\u2019s clear that this isn\u2019t \u2018Mission Accomplished.\u2019\u00a0 But we\u2019ve tacitly agreed it\u2019s time to go.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think there will be much national joy as this war winds down.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Graham Wilson, 617-353-2540, <a href=\"mailto:gkwilson@bu.edu\">gkwilson@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama says the 7-year-old Iraq war soon will be shifting from a military to an diplomatic mission as U.S. troops are drawn down.\u00a0 Political science Professor Graham Wilson, author of &#8220;Only in America? American Politics in comparative Perspective,&#8221; says Americans seem weary of the war and ready go see U.S. military engagement end. \u201cFrom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550"}],"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=6550"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7622,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550\/revisions\/7622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}