{"id":31516,"date":"2012-08-14T16:52:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T20:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31516"},"modified":"2012-08-14T16:52:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T20:52:37","slug":"a-syria-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31516","title":{"rendered":"A Syria Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s being reported that Iranian Revolutionary Guard members \u2013 posing as \u201creligious pilgrims\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2012\/08\/14\/iranian-soldiers-posing-as-pilgrims-among-group-captured-by-syrian-rebels-us\/\">were captured by Syrian rebels<\/a> ten days ago.\u00a0 They apparently were there to offer clandestine support for the Assad regime.<\/p>\n<p>This makes me wonder about a few things.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Would Iran have sent these \u201cpilgrims\u201d had the US not announced support for the Syrian opposition?<\/li>\n<li>Did the Obama Administration even foresee and consider this possibility?<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhat we do now, Keemosabe?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Oh, and I\u2019d also guess Iran is hedging their bets in Syria too.\u00a0 I\u2019d be shocked if they aren\u2019t making quiet overtures to some of the more hardline Islamist elements of the Syrian opposition \u2013 just in case.<\/p>\n<p>As I\u2019ve said before:\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ve got a bad feeling about this . . . .\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s being reported that Iranian Revolutionary Guard members \u2013 posing as \u201creligious pilgrims\u201d \u2013 were captured &hellip; <a title=\"A Syria Update\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31516\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Syria Update<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31516","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}