{"id":36207,"date":"2016-11-15T01:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T06:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36207"},"modified":"2017-04-15T23:21:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T03:21:23","slug":"qotd-the-one-certain-outcome-of-the-syrian-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/11\/15\/qotd-the-one-certain-outcome-of-the-syrian-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The one certain outcome of the Syrian civil war"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Russia and the West are fighting to decide whether Syria will be run by Sunni Islamists backed by Saudi Arabia or Shiite Islamists backed by Iran. This insane civil war has burned up countless lives, not to mention plenty of dollars, rubles, euros and pounds. The only certain winners of this war, once the dust has settled, will chant \u201cAllahu Akbar\u201d and call for the death of the infidels.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Greenfield, <a href=\"https:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.ca\/2016\/10\/its-mad-mad-war.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a Mad, Mad War&#8221;, <em>Sultan Knish<\/em><\/a>, 2016-10-27.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia and the West are fighting to decide whether Syria will be run by Sunni Islamists backed by Saudi Arabia or Shiite Islamists backed by Iran. This insane civil war has burned up countless lives, not to mention plenty of dollars, rubles, euros and pounds. The only certain winners of this war, once the dust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,41,11,1119],"tags":[650,287,47,371,694],"class_list":["post-36207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-quotations","category-religion","category-russia","tag-civilwar","tag-iran","tag-islam","tag-saudiarabia","tag-syria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9pZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36208,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36207\/revisions\/36208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}