{"id":33122,"date":"2012-12-06T09:35:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T13:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33122"},"modified":"2012-12-06T10:20:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T14:20:37","slug":"why-am-i-not-surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33122","title":{"rendered":"Why Am I Not Surprised?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when we were supporting the Libyan opposition to Qadaffi behind the scenes?\u00a0 You know, during that \u201cArab Spring\u201d that was supposed to bring democracy to the Arab world?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it turns out that we were apparently unwittingly supporting some other folks too.<\/p>\n<p>Like jihadists.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NYT, a fair amount of the weaponry the US funneled to the Libyan opposition through Qatar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/06\/world\/africa\/weapons-sent-to-libyan-rebels-with-us-approval-fell-into-islamist-hands.html?hp\">ended up in the hands of jihadist groups<\/a>.\u00a0 You know, those same folks who run around forcing women to wear burqas\/chadoors, chanting \u201cdeath to America\u201d, and want to impose Shaira worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>No evidence has turned up linking any of these arms to the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi.<\/p>\n<p>Yet.<\/p>\n<p>As I\u2019ve asked before:\u00a0 tell me again why we\u2019re supporting these \u201cArab Spring\u201d uprisings?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when we were supporting the Libyan opposition to Qadaffi behind the scenes?\u00a0 You know, during &hellip; <a title=\"Why Am I Not Surprised?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33122\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Am I Not Surprised?<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33122","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=33122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}