{"id":8514,"date":"2013-08-31T13:18:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T13:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/08\/31\/dont-do-it-mr-president\/"},"modified":"2013-08-31T13:18:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T13:18:40","slug":"dont-do-it-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/08\/31\/dont-do-it-mr-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Do It, Mr. President!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pay attention for a change to people who actually know something and can think straight such as Victor Davis Hanson<\/a> and Charles Krauthammer<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

At a bare minimum, make the case to the American people and consult with congress.<\/span><\/p>\n

A simple question that John Kerry does not address in his case<\/a> for intervention is the one posed by Hanson: "And what of the irony that Assad is probably no worse a custodian of WMD than is the opposition that we would de facto [be] aiding?" <\/span> <\/p>\n

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Pay attention for a change to people who actually know something and can think straight such as Victor Davis Hanson and Charles Krauthammer.  At a bare minimum, make the case to the American people and consult with congress. A simple question that John Kerry does not address in his case for intervention is the one posed by Hanson: … Continue reading “Don’t Do It, Mr. President!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}