{"id":37118,"date":"2013-08-16T09:53:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T13:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37118"},"modified":"2013-08-16T09:53:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T13:53:42","slug":"bright-star-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37118","title":{"rendered":"Bright Star cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/aug\/15\/obama-address-declining-egypt-situation-marthas-vi\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports that the Obama Administration has cancelled our joint training exercise with the Egyptian Army for this year, based on the current situation there;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhile we want to sustain our relationship with Egypt, our traditional cooperation cannot continue as usual,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Obama insisted that the U.S. is not taking sides in the dispute but that the violent clashes cannot go without an American response.<\/p>\n<p>The interim Egyptian government later rebuffed Mr. Obama, warning that his statement, \u201cwhile it\u2019s not based on facts \u2026 can empower the violent militant groups and encourage them in their destabilizing discourse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Canceling the military exercises will be seen as a blow to a military that values its close relationship with U.S. forces and gets an annual subsidy of more than $1 billion from Washington. Mr. Obama also said he has asked his advisers to look at other avenues of action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine this administration taking the same course of action if the Morsi government was still in power there, so yeah, he is taking sides, and dragging us along with him. I mean it&#8217;s great that our troops aren&#8217;t going to be exposed to the current danger in Egypt, but the President isn&#8217;t telling us the whole truth. Not that it&#8217;s new or anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that the Obama Administration has cancelled our joint training exercise with the &hellip; <a title=\"Bright Star cancelled\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37118\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bright Star cancelled<\/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":[46,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37118","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=37118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}