{"id":35159,"date":"2013-04-17T16:07:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T20:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35159"},"modified":"2013-04-17T14:07:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T18:07:28","slug":"more-troops-to-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35159","title":{"rendered":"More Troops to Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SECDEF has apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2013\/04\/17\/world\/us-jordan-troops-order\/\">ordered the deployment of 200 additional US troops to Jordan<\/a>.\u00a0 The troops will come from the HQ of the 1st Armored Division, and will apparently be heavy on communications and intelligence support personnel.<\/p>\n<p>The reason given by a Pentagon spokesman for the deployment of additional forces is to (1) assist the Jordanian military, and (2) &#8220;be ready for military action&#8221; should that be ordered by the POTUS.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this is just the Pentagon erring on the side of caution.\u00a0 But as I&#8217;ve said before about the US and Syria:\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a bad feeling about this . . . . &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SECDEF has apparently ordered the deployment of 200 additional US troops to Jordan.\u00a0 The troops &hellip; <a title=\"More Troops to Jordan\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35159\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Troops to Jordan<\/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-35159","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\/35159","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=35159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}