{"id":364735,"date":"2010-02-24T04:18:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T09:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidicke.com\/headlines\/30880-europes-pacifism-undermining-nato-gates-says-"},"modified":"2010-02-24T04:18:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T09:18:21","slug":"europe%e2%80%99s-pacifism-undermining-nato-gates-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/364735","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s Pacifism Undermining NATO, Gates Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;US Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Europe&#8217;s growing aversion to military force means the NATO alliance is facing a crisis. Addressing NATO officers at the National Defense University in Washington on Tuesday, Gates said that European countries&#8217; chronically low defense spending is damaging operations in Afghanistan. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now, the alliance faces very serious, long-term, systemic problems,&#8221; the US defense secretary said in a blunt message. He went on to say that public and political opposition to the military has grown so great in Europe that it is directly affecting operations in Afghanistan.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/presstv.ir\/detail.aspx?id=119350&#38;sectionid=3510203\" >Read more: Europe&#8217;s Pacifism Undermining NATO, Gates Says<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;US Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Europe&#8217;s growing aversion to military force means the NATO alliance is facing a crisis. Addressing NATO officers at the National Defense University in Washington on Tuesday, Gates said that European countries&#8217; chronically low defense spending is damaging operations in Afghanistan. &#8220;Right now, the alliance faces very serious, long-term, systemic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364735","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\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}