{"id":24932,"date":"2011-03-07T02:20:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T02:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ny_times_week_in_review_obamas_choice_to_intervene_or_not_in_libya\/"},"modified":"2011-03-07T02:20:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T02:20:56","slug":"ny_times_week_in_review_obamas_choice_to_intervene_or_not_in_libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24932","title":{"rendered":"(NY Times Week in Review) Obama\u2019s Choice: To Intervene or Not in Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For President Obama, who told Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi last week that it was time to quit, the bloodshed and terror in Libya have posed a dilemma that sooner or later confronts every modern American president: whether, and how, to intervene with military force in a distant conflict.<\/p>\n<p>This time, the choice has been made even tougher by history, geography and the peculiar circumstances of Libya\u2019s upheaval: a famously ruthless and unpredictable leader willing to do anything to cling to power, in a conflict that seems as much an African civil war as an Internet-fueled youth revolt of the kind that forced out Arab dictators in Egypt and Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/06\/weekinreview\/06protect.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For President Obama, who told Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi last week that it was time to quit, the bloodshed and terror in Libya have posed a dilemma that sooner or later confronts every modern American president: whether, and how, to intervene<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24932\">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":[39,40,50,202,209,143,149,140,144,119,531,203,616,151,667],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-economy","category-energy-natural-resources","category-foreign-relations","category-globalization","category-libya","category-middle-east","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24932","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=24932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}