{"id":22897,"date":"2010-11-15T00:40:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T00:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/britains_top_soldier_says_al-qaeda_cannot_be_beaten\/"},"modified":"2010-11-15T00:40:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T00:40:19","slug":"britains_top_soldier_says_al-qaeda_cannot_be_beaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22897","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#39;s top soldier says al-Qaeda cannot be beaten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new head of Britain&#8217;s armed forces, Gen Sir David Richards, has warned that the West cannot defeat al-Qaeda and militant Islam.<\/p>\n<p>He said defeating Islamist militancy was &#8220;unnecessary and would never be achieved&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>However, he argued that it could be &#8220;contained&#8221; to allow Britons to lead secure lives.<\/p>\n<p>Gen Richards, 58, said the threat posed by &#8220;al-Qaeda and its affiliates&#8221; meant Britain&#8217;s national security would be at risk for at least 30 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/afghanistan\/8131651\/Britains-top-soldier-says-al-Qaeda-cannot-be-beaten.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new head of Britain&#8217;s armed forces, Gen Sir David Richards, has warned that the West cannot defeat al-Qaeda and militant Islam. He said defeating Islamist militancy was &#8220;unnecessary and would never be achieved&#8221;. However, he argued that it could<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22897\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,143,199,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-defense-national-security-military","category-england-uk","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}