{"id":61878,"date":"2015-09-17T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61878"},"modified":"2015-09-16T19:48:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T23:48:03","slug":"lindsay-graham-wants-to-send-20k-troops-to-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61878","title":{"rendered":"Lindsay Graham wants to send 20k troops to Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=28097\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28097\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/last-convoy-out-of-Iraq.jpg\" alt=\"last convoy out of Iraq\" width=\"294\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28097\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics-live\/liveblog\/live-updates-republican-presidential-debate-2\/#1f847256-bc1c-462a-a6d3-488287c3d198\">Washington Post<\/a> reported last night that Senator Lindsay Graham, one of the four Republican presidential candidates who wants to send troops to Syria and Iraq, says that he&#8217;ll send 20,000 troops to the region to prevent ISIS from expanding across the Lavant.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPresident Obama has made a mess of the world,\u201d said Graham. \u201cSyria is hell on earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graham blames Syria\u2019s entire crisis on a) Obama\u2019s decision to withdraw U.S. forces \u2014 something the Iraqi government at the time demanded; b) on the Obama administration\u2019s reticence to take aggressive action at an earlier stage in the Syrian conflict.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, the reporter, Ishaan Tharoor, blames Bush. Yeah, well, I blame them all. If Congress got off their fat asses and let US oil companies drill and refine our own fuel here in this country, events in the Middle East wouldn&#8217;t affect us quite so much. If the White House would come up with a clear plan for destroying ISIS instead of pinprick attacks, we&#8217;d have more control over events in the region. Instead of blaming each other, we need to get to work and do the things that got us involved in the Middle East in the first place instead of cleaving to the politics of it all. <\/p>\n<p>By the way, Graham is toast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reported last night that Senator Lindsay Graham, one of the four Republican presidential &hellip; <a title=\"Lindsay Graham wants to send 20k troops to Syria\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61878\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lindsay Graham wants to send 20k troops to Syria<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61878","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=61878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}