{"id":198777,"date":"2007-10-10T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/10\/what-happened-in-syria\/"},"modified":"2007-10-10T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T01:44:00","slug":"what-happened-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/10\/what-happened-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened in Syria?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/10\/washington\/10diplo.html?hp=&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;adxnnlx=1192032281-llkizcVK9HrKzj0dF2\/rKw\">is reporting that Dick Cheney, and his merry band of lunatics is maintaining that the DPRK was shipping nuclear technology to Syria, and Condi Rice and the State Department are maintaining there there is no conclusive evidence on which to act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that Israel felt that there was some sort of threat, but they are not talking.  That being said, if there is a faceoff between those who are <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">completely batsh$# insane and <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">always<\/span> wrong<\/span> and those who are <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">sometimes<\/span> insane, and <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">usually<\/span> wrong, I&#8217;ll go with the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Syria has no background in nuclear weapons technology, but I could see them getting improved chem\/bio warheads from the DPRK, as they do have active programs there, at least on the chem side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times is reporting that Dick Cheney, and his merry band of lunatics is maintaining that the DPRK was shipping nuclear technology to Syria, and Condi Rice and the State Department are maintaining there there is no conclusive evidence on which to act. It&#8217;s clear that Israel felt that there was some sort &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1159,986,1006,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","category-middle-east","category-military","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198777"}],"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=198777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}