{"id":1051134,"date":"2023-04-05T05:46:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T05:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=278494"},"modified":"2023-04-05T05:46:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T05:46:20","slug":"the-tragic-u-s-choice-to-prioritize-war-over-peacemaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/04\/05\/the-tragic-u-s-choice-to-prioritize-war-over-peacemaking\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tragic U.S. Choice to Prioritize War Over Peacemaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. &#8211; Matthew 5:9 In a brilliant Op-Ed published in the New York Times, the Quincy Institute\u2019s Trita Parsi explained how China, with help from Iraq, was able to mediate and resolve the deeply-rooted conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia, whereas the United  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/04\/05\/the-tragic-u-s-choice-to-prioritize-war-over-peacemaking\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/04\/05\/the-tragic-u-s-choice-to-prioritize-war-over-peacemaking\/\">The Tragic U.S. Choice to Prioritize War Over Peacemaking<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/04\/05\/the-tragic-u-s-choice-to-prioritize-war-over-peacemaking\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. &#8211; Matthew 5:9 In a brilliant Op-Ed published in the New York Times, the Quincy Institute\u2019s Trita Parsi explained how China, with help from Iraq, was able to mediate and re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051135,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051134\/revisions\/1051135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}