{"id":71356,"date":"2017-04-09T11:56:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T15:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71356"},"modified":"2017-04-09T16:39:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T20:39:13","slug":"josh-rogin-obamas-syria-strike-plan-was-much-bigger-than-trumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71356","title":{"rendered":"Josh Rogin: Obama\u2019s Syria strike plan was much bigger than Trump\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=38186\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38186\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Smell5-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Smell5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Smell5-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Smell5.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Josh Rogin writes in the pages of the Washington Post that &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/josh-rogin\/wp\/2017\/04\/09\/obamas-syria-strike-plan-was-much-bigger-than-trumps\/?utm_term=.19f5ad0b34cb\">Obama\u2019s Syria strike plan was much bigger than Trump\u2019s<\/a>&#8220;. A real comedy piece to make Obama look more committed to the war against the use of chemical weapons than Trump;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the Obama plan was designed to be substantial enough to have an impact on Assad\u2019s calculus. There were also plans to follow up with strikes on even more targets if Assad continued to use chemical weapons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe military planners thought that the attack we had planned in 2013 was significant enough to have a real deterrent effect,\u201d the official said. \u201cWe had a strike plan that included additional targets that would not have been struck in the initial go around.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So why haven&#8217;t we heard about this big plan until now?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Obama changed his mind at the last minute and ended up not striking Syria at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s what Nobel prize winners do when they&#8217;re trying to nail down their legacy and kick the can down the road.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Rogin writes in the pages of the Washington Post that &#8220;Obama\u2019s Syria strike plan was &hellip; <a title=\"Josh Rogin: Obama\u2019s Syria strike plan was much bigger than Trump\u2019s\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71356\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Josh Rogin: Obama\u2019s Syria strike plan was much bigger than Trump\u2019s<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71356","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\/71356","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=71356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}