{"id":19018,"date":"2013-09-04T16:36:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T20:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=19018"},"modified":"2013-09-04T16:36:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T20:36:30","slug":"regime-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=19018","title":{"rendered":"Regime Change!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/entry\/mccain-amendment-us-policy-to-change-momentum-in?ref=fpblg\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Senate Foreign Relations Committee<\/a> adopted by voice vote Wednesday two amendments by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)  to the resolution authorizing military action in Syria that would make it the goal of the mission to \"change the moment on the battlefield in Syria.\"<\/p>\n<p>The two McCain amendments to that effect, co-sponsored by Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), change the non-binding Statement of Policy in the resolution to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    It is the policy of the United States to change the momentum on the battlefield in Syria so as to create favorable conditions for a negotiated settlement that <strong>ends the conflict and leads to a democratic government in Syria.<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That's the stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee adopted by voice vote Wednesday two amendments by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) to the resolution authorizing military action in Syria that would make it the goal of the mission to \"change the moment on the battlefield in Syria.\" The two McCain amendments to that effect, co-sponsored by [&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-19018","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\/19018","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=19018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}