{"id":52356,"date":"2014-06-26T14:11:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T18:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=52356"},"modified":"2014-06-26T14:16:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T18:16:40","slug":"un-endorses-force-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52356","title":{"rendered":"UN calls for use of force in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks, UN. It seems that they&#8217;ve actually authorized the use of military force against the ISIS juggernaut pointed at Baghdad, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/u-n-endorses-iraq-military-force-against-advancing-180247554.html\">Reuters<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Nickolay Mladenov, who as U.N. special envoy to Iraq heads the world body&#8217;s political mission there, said Iraq&#8217;s key southern oil reserves remained safe. But he raised the estimated civilian death toll to at least 1,300 since the recent fighting began, up from Tuesday&#8217;s estimate of more than 1,000.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks came as hardline Sunni militants attacked one of Iraq&#8217;s largest air bases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The part of the crisis that has been caused by the advances of ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) must be addressed militarily.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know, I&#8217;m glad I was sitting down when I read that. But, it&#8217;s just like the UN to come a day late and a dollar short &#8211; not to mention authorizing force when they have nothing to apply force with. Where were all of these war hawks six months ago when ISIS took Fallujah when there was a chance that someone could have stopped them?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, when no one can stop them, the US military will be blamed somehow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks, UN. It seems that they&#8217;ve actually authorized the use of military force against the ISIS &hellip; <a title=\"UN calls for use of force in Iraq\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52356\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UN calls for use of force in Iraq<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52356","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=52356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}