{"id":18983,"date":"2013-08-30T16:10:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T20:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=18983"},"modified":"2013-08-30T16:10:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T20:10:05","slug":"self-deputizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=18983","title":{"rendered":"Self Deputizing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='\/images\/Respect_My_Authoritah.jpg' align=right style=\"margin-left:10px; border:none\"><\/p>\n<p>Who appointed the US to be the enforcer of 'international norms' ?<\/p>\n<p>Nobody ?<\/p>\n<p>Then <em>what the fuck<\/em> are <a href=\"http:\/\/worldnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/08\/30\/20255563-kerry-calls-attack-against-syrian-civilians-crime-against-humanity?lite\">Obama and Kerry doing<\/a> ?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Referring directly to the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, [Kerry] said: \u201cFatigue does not absolve us of our responsibility. Just longing for peace does not necessarily bring it about.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you mean \"our\" responsibility? Who put that on us? <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Barack Obama said he had not made a decision on military action, but echoed Kerry in saying any U.S. action would be limited. The United States has an obligation \"as a leader in the world\" to hold foreign nations to account when they use prohibited weapons, the president said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, we do not have any such obligation. There's an organization called the \"United Nations\" that was set up to handle these kinds of things (and to stop one country from imposing itself on other countries, ahem). Maybe these two should zip up to NY and pay it a visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who appointed the US to be the enforcer of 'international norms' ? Nobody ? Then what the fuck are Obama and Kerry doing ? Referring directly to the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, [Kerry] said: \u201cFatigue does not absolve us of our responsibility. Just longing for peace does not necessarily bring it about.\u201d What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}