{"id":615,"date":"2007-06-25T03:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T03:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/britains_brown_vows_to_learn_from_iraq\/"},"modified":"2007-06-25T03:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T03:48:00","slug":"britains_brown_vows_to_learn_from_iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#39;s Brown Vows to Learn From Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Brown, Britain&#8217;s next prime minister, on Sunday promised a foreign policy that recognizes that defeating terrorism is as much a struggle of ideas as a military battle &#8211; a lesson he said was drawn from Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>As he took control of the governing Labour Party from Tony Blair, Brown said Britain would &#8220;learn lessons that need to be learned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s future foreign policy will &#8220;reflect the truth that to isolate and defeat terrorist extremism now involves more than military force,&#8221; Brown told a conference of party members in Manchester, northern England.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is also a struggle of ideas and ideals that in the coming years will be waged and won for hearts and minds here at home and round the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/B\/BRITAIN_BROWN?SITE=7219&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#038;CTIME=2007-06-24-10-35-05\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Brown, Britain&#8217;s next prime minister, on Sunday promised a foreign policy that recognizes that defeating terrorism is as much a struggle of ideas as a military battle &#8211; a lesson he said was drawn from Iraq. As he took<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=615\">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":[40,50,200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","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=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}