{"id":2972,"date":"2018-04-17T07:26:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T14:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2018-04-17T07:26:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T14:26:35","slug":"more-on-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2972","title":{"rendered":"More on Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why did I <a href=\"\/blog\/new\/?p=2950\">claim earlier<\/a> that the missile attacks are &#8220;mostly for show?&#8221; Because that&#8217;s what they genuinely appear to be. There&#8217;s no sign of any broader strategy existing. Quite the contrary: after all the dust settled, Cadet Bone Spurs strutted around boasting &#8220;Mission accomplished!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Assad&#8217;s forces were attacked by US missiles last year and it had no lasting impact. There&#8217;s no reason to believe the long-term effect of the most recent attack will be any different.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there&#8217;s no reason to take the Islamophobe-in-chief&#8217;s professed humanitarian concern for Syrians very seriously. The same guy who&#8217;s tried to ban Muslim immigration and who&#8217;s blocked most such refugees from finding asylum here? Give me a break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did I claim earlier that the missile attacks are &#8220;mostly for show?&#8221; Because that&#8217;s what they genuinely appear to be. There&#8217;s no sign of any broader strategy existing. Quite the contrary: after all the dust settled, Cadet Bone Spurs strutted around boasting &#8220;Mission accomplished!&#8221; Assad&#8217;s forces were attacked by US missiles last year and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}