{"id":353040,"date":"2010-02-23T09:39:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T14:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77412"},"modified":"2010-02-23T09:39:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T14:39:02","slug":"gates-views-baradar-capture-as-%e2%80%98real-progress-on-the-pakistani-side%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/353040","title":{"rendered":"Gates Views Baradar Capture as \u2018Real Progress, on the Pakistani Side\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who&#8217;s probably dealt with the Pakistanis longer than any senior administration official, reacts to the capture of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/transcripts\/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=4571\">press conference yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to get into specific captures. But I would say that what we are seeing is the importance of operations, on both sides of the border, and a manifestation of real progress, on the Pakistani side, of dealing with the threats that I&#8217;ve talked about; whether they&#8217;re the Pakistan Taliban, the Afghan Taliban or al Qaeda, that they all work together, and the success of one is success of the rest.<\/p>\n<p>So I think that the recent events have been another positive indication of the Pakistanis&#8217; commitment to stabilizing this border area.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Typically understated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who&#8217;s probably dealt with the Pakistanis longer than any senior administration official, reacts to the capture of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar at a press conference yesterday: I don&#8217;t want to get into specific captures. But I would say that what we are seeing is the importance of operations, on both sides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}