{"id":24933,"date":"2011-03-07T02:10:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T02:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/u-s-_senators_call_for_no-flight_zone_over_libya\/"},"modified":"2011-03-07T02:10:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T02:10:15","slug":"u-s-_senators_call_for_no-flight_zone_over_libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24933","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Senators Call for No-Flight Zone Over Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite skepticism from Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, three influential United States senators from both political parties on Sunday called for the United States to consider carving out a no-flight zone in Libya to prevent Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi from massacring the rebels trying to overthrow him.<\/p>\n<p>But the Obama administration continued to resist such appeals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLots of people throw around phrases like no-fly zone \u201d\u201d they talk about it as though it\u2019s just a video game,\u201d\u009d William M. Daley, the new White House chief of staff, said in at appearance on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d\u009d television news program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/07\/world\/middleeast\/07nofly.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite skepticism from Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, three influential United States senators from both political parties on Sunday called for the United States to consider carving out a no-flight zone in Libya to prevent Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi from<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24933\">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":[40,50,202,209,143,149,144,531,203,616,151,667,618],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-economy","category-foreign-relations","category-libya","category-middle-east","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24933","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=24933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}