{"id":180055,"date":"2017-07-27T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/27\/quote-of-the-day-54\/"},"modified":"2017-07-27T18:13:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T23:13:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/27\/quote-of-the-day-54\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">One of the keys to understanding its origins is that the program was launched not because of a threat to U.S. security, but because of a perceived opportunity. That is always a danger sign, prompting powerful national-security bureaucrats to begin thinking about a \u201cwin\u201d for the United States. (Think Vietnam and Iraq.)<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/how-cia-and-allies-trapped-obama-in-syrian-arms-debacle\/\">Gareth Porter<\/a> In the <i>American Conservative<\/i> of all places.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s in a surprisingly well written article about how we ended up supporting al Qaeda forces in Syrian civil war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the keys to understanding its origins is that the program was launched not because of a threat to U.S. security, but because of a perceived opportunity. That is always a danger sign, prompting powerful national-security bureaucrats to begin thinking about a \u201cwin\u201d for the United States. (Think Vietnam and Iraq.) \u2014Gareth Porter In &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[489,588,464,504,696],"class_list":["post-180055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-civil-war","tag-fail","tag-good-writing","tag-philosophy","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}