{"id":24868,"date":"2011-03-03T16:15:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T16:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_qa_what_could_trigger_u-s-_intervention_in_libya\/"},"modified":"2011-03-03T16:15:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T16:15:52","slug":"reuters_qa_what_could_trigger_u-s-_intervention_in_libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24868","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Q+A: What could trigger U.S. intervention in Libya?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT COULD TRIGGER U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTION?<\/p>\n<p>Possibly a major jump in the death toll. Analysts say massacres of civilians, aerial bombing of civilian targets or a concerted military offensive by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to retake rebel-held territory could be possible triggers.<\/p>\n<p>While the Obama administration is sensitive to criticism that it has been slow to respond more forcefully to Gaddafi&#8217;s bloody crackdown on opponents, it has made clear it will not be rushed into making any hasty decisions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/03\/02\/us-libya-usa-intervention-idUSTRE72179H20110302\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT COULD TRIGGER U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTION? Possibly a major jump in the death toll. Analysts say massacres of civilians, aerial bombing of civilian targets or a concerted military offensive by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to retake rebel-held territory could be<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24868\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,202,143,149,140,144,531,203,151,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-defense-national-security-military","category-economy","category-energy-natural-resources","category-foreign-relations","category-libya","category-middle-east","category-politics-in-general","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}