{"id":32047,"date":"2012-09-18T07:56:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T11:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32047"},"modified":"2012-09-18T07:56:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T11:56:29","slug":"heres-the-thanks-we-get-from-the-syrian-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32047","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s the Thanks We Get from the Syrian Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written a few times before (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31207\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31309\">here,<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31516\">here<\/a>) on events in Syria.\u00a0 BLUF:\u00a0 I think we&#8217;re making a serious mistake in supporting the Syrian rebels.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t seem to know &#8211; or, alternatively, don&#8217;t seem to care &#8211; who they are or what they represent.\u00a0 And our recent track record in Egypt and Libya doesn&#8217;t exactly inspire confidence in the current Administration&#8217;s ability to manage such crises.<\/p>\n<p>Well today we have this.\u00a0 The folks who we&#8217;re supporting in Syria (the Syrian rebels) are apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/video-syrian-rebels-burn-american-flag\/\">giving the US the finger by publicly burning the US flag<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s from Infowars.\u00a0 But I don&#8217;t think Alex Jones and crew fabricated the video clip.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve said before:\u00a0 tell me again why we&#8217;re supporting these folks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written a few times before (here, here, and here) on events in Syria.\u00a0 BLUF:\u00a0 I &hellip; <a title=\"Here&#8217;s the Thanks We Get from the Syrian Opposition\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32047\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Here&#8217;s the Thanks We Get from the Syrian Opposition<\/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":[9,84,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-military-issues","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32047","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=32047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}