{"id":35007,"date":"2013-04-09T05:05:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T09:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35007"},"modified":"2013-04-09T05:20:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T09:20:12","slug":"deja-vu-all-over-again-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35007","title":{"rendered":"D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu All Over Again &#8211; Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current Administration has decided that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/04\/08\/obama-clears-way-for-us-to-train-arm-somali-forces\/\">it\u2019s now OK for the US to provide direct military assistance to the new government of Somalia<\/a>.\u00a0 Specifically, the POTUS has determined that it is appropriate for the US to provide defense equipment and services to the Somali government.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, &#8220;defense equipment and services&#8221; means exactly what you think it does:\u00a0 arms, equipment, and people to train Somali government forces.\u00a0 No, plans to deploy US forces to Somalia have not yet been announced.\u00a0 Yet.<\/p>\n<p>Why?\u00a0 Because according to the POTUS, the US providing defense equipment and services to Somalia &#8220;will strengthen the security of the United States and promote world peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Damn.\u00a0 I have that strange \u201cI\u2019ve seen this movie before, and the ending sucked\u201d feeling.\u00a0 Now why is that?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah \u2013 now I remember.\u00a0 The movie I\u2019m thinking of told the story of events 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>It was called \u201cBlack Hawk Down\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current Administration has decided that it\u2019s now OK for the US to provide direct military &hellip; <a title=\"D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu All Over Again &#8211; Redux\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35007\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu All Over Again &#8211; Redux<\/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-35007","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\/35007","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=35007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}