{"id":26400,"date":"2011-09-06T07:55:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T11:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26400"},"modified":"2011-09-06T07:55:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T11:55:36","slug":"us-commanders-want-to-take-direct-action-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26400","title":{"rendered":"US Commanders want to take direct action against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/09\/06\/us-commanders-pushing-for-permission-to-run-covert-ops-to-counter-iran\/\">Fox New<\/a>s and the Wall Street Journal, US commanders are concerned about Iran&#8217;s expansion of operations in Iraq and throughout the region and they&#8217;re urging the administration to allow them to take direct action against iran&#8217;s forces;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The move comes amid growing concern in the Obama administration about Iran&#8217;s attempts in recent months to expand its influence in Iraq and the broader Middle East and what it says is Tehran&#8217;s increased arms smuggling to its allies, The Wall Street Journal reported.<\/p>\n<p>Compounding the urgency is the planned reduction in the US military presence in Iraq by the end of the year, a development that many fear will open up the country to more influence from Iran, which also has a majority Shiite population.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the Obama Administration to refuse this request is to revisit the failures of the Vietnam War when the Nixon and Johnson Administrations failed to cross the borders of Cambodia and Laos effectively and cut off the supply routes into South Vietnam that maintained the Viet Cong and NVA regulars.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranians have been fueling the war in Iraq for years and it was a great failure of the Bush Administration to address the incursions effectively. If Obama is married to his timetable withdrawal from Iraq, he has to accept that it will take military action against Iran&#8217;s cross-border incursions to leave Iraq safely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, US commanders are concerned about Iran&#8217;s expansion &hellip; <a title=\"US Commanders want to take direct action against Iran\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26400\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Commanders want to take direct action against Iran<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26400","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=26400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}