{"id":32322,"date":"2012-10-10T07:49:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T11:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32322"},"modified":"2012-10-10T07:49:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T11:49:56","slug":"troops-to-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32322","title":{"rendered":"Troops to Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/us-military-is-sent-to-jordan-to-help-with-crisis-in-syria-1.192558\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that US troops have been deployed to Jordan in an effort to help the country avoid the drama spilling across it&#8217;s borders from Syria.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The task force, which has been led by a senior American officer, is based at a Jordanian military training center built into an old rock quarry north of Amman, the Times reported Wednesday, and is focused on helping Jordanians handle the estimated 180,000 refugees who have crossed the border and are severely straining resources.<\/p>\n<p>American officials told the Times that the mission also includes drawing up plans to try to insulate Jordan, an important American ally in the region, from the upheaval.<\/p>\n<p>The officials are reported as saying that establishing a buffer zone between Syria and Jordan \u2014 which would be enforced by Jordanian forces on the Syrian side of the border and supported politically and perhaps logistically by the United States \u2014 had been discussed, but is only a contingency plan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So I guess protesters will be changing their signs to protest our &#8220;occupation&#8221; of Jordan, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripes reports that US troops have been deployed to Jordan in an effort to &hellip; <a title=\"Troops to Jordan\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32322\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Troops to Jordan<\/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":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32322","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=32322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}