{"id":19004,"date":"2013-09-04T09:34:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T13:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=19004"},"modified":"2013-09-04T09:34:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T13:34:38","slug":"the-foot-in-the-door-for-boots-on-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=19004","title":{"rendered":"The Foot In The Door For Boots On The Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the predicate of an 'if' seems likely, it's no longer much of an 'if'; it's more like a 'when'.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/john-kerry-wont-completely-rule-out-use-of-u.s.-troops-in-syria\/article\/2535119\">Secretary of State<\/a> John Kerry told a panel of senators that he couldn\u2019t absolutely rule out the use of U.S. combat troops in Syria if groups hostile to the United States seized any of Syria\u2019s chemical weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers' concerns that America would be drawn into a broader conflict \u2013 already evident among many members of the Senate \u2013 deepened when Kerry speculated openly at a hearing Tuesday about the circumstances under which the U.S. might deploy combat troops in Syria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the predicate of an 'if' seems likely, it's no longer much of an 'if'; it's more like a 'when'. Secretary of State John Kerry told a panel of senators that he couldn\u2019t absolutely rule out the use of U.S. combat troops in Syria if groups hostile to the United States seized any of Syria\u2019s [&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-19004","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\/19004","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=19004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}