{"id":27552,"date":"2011-11-18T08:55:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T12:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27552"},"modified":"2011-11-18T08:55:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T12:55:04","slug":"kenya-requests-us-help-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27552","title":{"rendered":"Kenya requests US help in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope they&#8217;re not holding their breath (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-us-somalia-20111118,0,7985129.story\">LA Times<\/a> link);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Administration officials are considering the request, which came through the State Department, to provide military surveillance and reconnaissance that could include imagery from drone aircraft. Such aid would represent a significant expansion of U.S. involvement in the chaotic East African nation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given this administration&#8217;s famous dithering strategy, it could take months for them to decide whether or not they want to support African forces arrayed against the al Qaeda-linked Shabab. Cuz, you know, the war against terror is just a jingle that the neo-cons sing when they need defense spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope they&#8217;re not holding their breath (LA Times link); Administration officials are considering the request, &hellip; <a title=\"Kenya requests US help in Somalia\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27552\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kenya requests US help in Somalia<\/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-27552","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\/27552","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=27552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}