{"id":31970,"date":"2012-09-12T14:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31970"},"modified":"2012-09-12T14:07:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T18:07:26","slug":"karzai-weighs-in-on-libya-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31970","title":{"rendered":"Karzai weighs in on Libya situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We can always count on Hamid Karzai to be our ally and say the right things in a crisis situation, you know, because if it wasn&#8217;t for us he&#8217;d be just another dingus wearing a curtain in the streets of Paris. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/13\/world\/asia\/afghan-leader-hamid-karzai-condemns-anti-islam-film.html\">New York Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Hamid Karzai condemned an American-made anti-Islam film that has been backed by the American pastor Terry Jones, issuing a statement on Wednesday that said his office \u201cstrongly and resolutely denounces this desecrating act and declares its serious abhorrence in the face of such an insult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s statement did not call for any action other than preventing the release of the film. It also did not explicitly appeal for calm&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because that&#8217;s what makes Hamid&#8217;s world go &#8217;round. Thanks, buddy, here&#8217;s another coupla billion bucks for your retirement fund.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, one of the dead Americans was an Air Force veteran, Sean Smith, who predicted there was an <a href=\"http:\/\/riehlworldview.com\/2012\/09\/murdered-foreign-service-officer-sean-smith-assuming-we-dont-die-tonight-we-saw-one-of-our-police-that-guard-the-compound-taking-pictures.html\">impending coordinated assault planned on the compound<\/a> when he saw their &#8220;security guards&#8221; taking pictures of the compound.<\/p>\n<p>Two others killed haven&#8217;t been identified pending notification of their families, but the rumor is that they are Marines. If they are indeed Marines, I don&#8217;t suppose that bodes well for any Libyans who get in the way of the Fleet Antiterrorism Support Team that is headed in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>And, oh, yeah, if you&#8217;re wondering what academia thinks of the First Amendment, here&#8217;s the report of a <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/09\/12\/upenn-professor-calls-for-imprisonment-of-filmmaker-sam-bacile\/\">Tweet from a UPenn<\/a> professor who is calling for the arrest of Sam Bacile because, apparently she blames the film maker for the four deaths, not the folks who killed them in a manner that&#8217;s still not clear (although asphyxiation is a good bet at this point). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can always count on Hamid Karzai to be our ally and say the right things &hellip; <a title=\"Karzai weighs in on Libya situation\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31970\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Karzai weighs in on Libya situation<\/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-31970","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\/31970","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=31970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}