{"id":22873,"date":"2011-04-07T19:47:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T23:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22873"},"modified":"2011-04-07T19:47:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T23:47:20","slug":"no-boots-on-the-ground-promise-reconsidered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22873","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No boots on the ground&#8221; promise reconsidered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AndyFMF sends us a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2011\/04\/07\/501364\/main20051760.shtml#ixzz1IrtMwlxl\">CBS News<\/a> article in which Gen. Carter Ham told Congress that President Obama&#8217;s promise that there would be &#8220;no, boots on the ground&#8221; in Libya is virtually meaningless;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Asked if the U.S. would provide troops, Ham said, &#8220;I suspect there might be some consideration of that. My personal view at this point would be that that&#8217;s probably not the ideal circumstance, again for the regional reaction that having American boots on the ground would entail.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ham also told lawmakers that Libyans government forces are hiding among the civilian population&#8230;that&#8217;s never happened to us before and its completely unexpected. So a strictly air campaign isn&#8217;t working out so well, I&#8217;m wondering what&#8217;s the recourse. <\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;ve known for years now that the president is not averse to telling lies he has no intention of keeping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AndyFMF sends us a link to a CBS News article in which Gen. Carter Ham told &hellip; <a title=\"&#8220;No boots on the ground&#8221; promise reconsidered\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22873\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;No boots on the ground&#8221; promise reconsidered<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}