{"id":4211,"date":"2012-01-22T14:38:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T14:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/?p=4211"},"modified":"2012-01-22T14:38:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T14:38:46","slug":"financial-times-us-seeks-to-keep-influence-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/22\/financial-times-us-seeks-to-keep-influence-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Times: US Seeks to Keep Influence in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ft.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ft-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ft\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4212\" align=\"left\" style=\"padding-right:15px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ft-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ft.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a>The Financial Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/d4164454-2d7b-11e1-b5bf-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1hSpBhEbU\">interviewed me<\/a> and others on the future of Iraq, based around the premise that &#8220;the political tensions in Baghdad have quickly raised questions about how much sway the US will retain in Iraq.&#8221; In other words, what were almost nine years, a trillion dollars and 4478 American lives worth?<\/p>\n<p>The article also focuses on the role of the World&#8217;s Largest Embassy (c):<\/p>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some Iraqi political factions have already voiced alarm about the size of the embassy. Jawad al-Shahyli, a lawmaker who is close to Moqtada al-Sadr, the Iranian-backed Shia cleric, said the embassy \u201cconstitutes a major threat to the Iraqi political situation,\u201d according to the country\u2019s official news agency. \u201cWe have no doubt about that. The nature of task of the US embassy in Baghdad is an intelligence one.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the full piece at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/d4164454-2d7b-11e1-b5bf-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1hSpBhEbU\">Financial Times<\/a> site.<br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/p>\n<div id=\"apf_post_footer\">\n<h4>Related Articles:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/?p=40460\">What I Miss the Most About Pre-9\/11 America<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/?p=39926\">Why the Ben Franklin Fellowship at State?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/?p=39906\">Is Iran a Turning Point?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/?p=39882\">Whistleblowers, Leakers, and Spies<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/?p=39838\">Can the U.S. Win the Iran War?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/?p=39802\">The One Absolute Non-Negotiable Item with Iran<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/?p=38277\">Trump versus the Visa Office<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Times interviewed me and others on the future of Iraq, based around the premise that &#8220;the political tensions in Baghdad have quickly raised questions about how much sway the US will retain in Iraq.&#8221; In other words, what were almost nine years, a trillion dollars and 4478 American lives worth? The article also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8,7],"tags":[874,260],"class_list":["post-4211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy","category-embassystate","category-iraq","tag-financial-times","tag-sadr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}