{"id":60099,"date":"2015-05-30T14:04:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T18:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60099"},"modified":"2015-05-30T14:04:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T18:04:42","slug":"spain-approves-new-us-rapid-response-force-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60099","title":{"rendered":"Spain approves new US rapid response force base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=60100\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60100\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/John-Kerry-dorkface-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"John Kerry dorkface\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/John-Kerry-dorkface-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/John-Kerry-dorkface-393x333.jpg 393w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/John-Kerry-dorkface.jpg 477w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Andy11M sends us a link to the an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/spain-makes-us-rapid-force-moron-permanent-124856250.html?soc_src=mail&#038;soc_trk=ma\">Associated Press<\/a> article which reports that the Spanish government has approved stationing of a US rapid response force at their base in Moron (it&#8217;s pronounced More-OWN, you moron). <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The deal approved by Spain&#8217;s Cabinet allows for the U.S. to station up to 3,000 troops at the Moron air base, up from a current 850. The number of aircraft deployed can be increased from 14 to 40.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is to visit Madrid on Sunday and Monday to sign the agreement. Kerry will meet with King Felipe, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo during his stay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What with emergencies like the Benghazi consulate attack on September 11th, 2012, we really need this agreement.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure that Kerry still has time to screw it up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy11M sends us a link to the an Associated Press article which reports that the Spanish &hellip; <a title=\"Spain approves new US rapid response force base\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60099\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spain approves new US rapid response force base<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60099","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=60099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}