{"id":37393,"date":"2013-09-03T11:56:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T15:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37393"},"modified":"2013-09-03T11:56:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T15:56:28","slug":"boehner-supports-syria-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37393","title":{"rendered":"Boehner supports Syria adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nice. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/09\/03\/boehner-backs-obama-call-for-military-strike-on-syria\/\">Fox News<\/a> is reporting that Speaker of the House John Boehner has announced his support for the President&#8217;s &#8220;punishment&#8221; or something of the Syrian government for their alleged use of chemical weapons on their alleged opponents in the alleged civil war in Syria. Allegedly.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Boehner, emerging from a White House meeting with several other top-ranking lawmakers, said the chemical weapons attack last month &#8220;has to be responded to.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to support the president&#8217;s call for action,&#8221; Boehner said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The report doesn&#8217;t say whether Boehner had tears in his eyes or not.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I0xdaM94pn4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At this point, we&#8217;re not hearing what this military action will accomplish (other than sending some nebulous message to some nebulous dictators &#8211; I guess because the message of Iraq wasn&#8217;t loud enough). I don&#8217;t know what our national security interest is in this, other than sending a nebulous message to nebulous dictators. <\/p>\n<p>The only reason that Boehner doesn&#8217;t oppose this punishment strategy is because he doesn&#8217;t want to be called a meany or a racist or something. Anyone with any sort common sense or even a cursory reading of von Clausewitz would recognize this as a bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>So what will &#8220;victory&#8221; look like? What&#8217;s the exit strategy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice. Fox News is reporting that Speaker of the House John Boehner has announced his support &hellip; <a title=\"Boehner supports Syria adventure\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37393\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boehner supports Syria adventure<\/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":[89,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37393","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=37393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}