{"id":186397,"date":"2014-01-31T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/31\/barack-obama-is-determined-to-go-to-war-against-syria\/"},"modified":"2014-01-31T23:10:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T04:10:00","slug":"barack-obama-is-determined-to-go-to-war-against-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/31\/barack-obama-is-determined-to-go-to-war-against-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama is Determined to Go to War Against Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because we need to find some little country to beat up every decade or so.<\/p>\n<p>The US is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2014\/01\/30\/216465\/us-accuses-syria-of-not-complying.html\">amping up complaints about the speed of Syrian chemical weapons destruction as a justification for military strikes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The United States on Thursday accused Syria of deliberately delaying the surrender of its chemical weapons stockpiles and jeopardizing a tightly timed and costly international removal and destruction operation that narrowly averted U.S. airstrikes last year.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">It was the first formal accusation that Syria was not cooperating with the terms of its disarmament after months in which international diplomats and chemical weapons experts marveled at the speed with which the process was being carried out. The public denunciation, however, closely tracked concerns that independent experts have expressed privately in recent weeks about the operation\u2019s pace.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Most chemical weapons experts agree that Syria\u2019s ability to manufacture and deploy the banned weapons was destroyed last year. \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/rzXVrao.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/rzXVrao.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because we need to find some little country to beat up every decade or so. The US is now amping up complaints about the speed of Syrian chemical weapons destruction as a justification for military strikes: The United States on Thursday accused Syria of deliberately delaying the surrender of its chemical weapons stockpiles and jeopardizing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,981,964,1051,1257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-civil-war","category-foreign-relations","category-hypocrisy","category-wmd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186397"}],"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=186397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}