{"id":25358,"date":"2011-03-29T17:09:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T17:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_newspaper_editorial_goals_on_libya_still_murky\/"},"modified":"2011-03-29T17:09:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T17:09:08","slug":"local_newspaper_editorial_goals_on_libya_still_murky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25358","title":{"rendered":"Local newspaper Editorial: Goals on Libya still murky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama tried Monday night to clarify America&#8217;s goals &#8212; and methods &#8212; in Libya. Unfortunately, though, just as the international coalition&#8217;s air strikes have so far left dictator Moammar Gadhafi in power, the president&#8217;s speech to the nation from Fort McNair in Washington left some troubling questions unanswered.<\/p>\n<p>The president seemed to declare victory of a sort while hailing NATO&#8217;s looming Wednesday takeover of coalition command. And for the present, Col. Gadhafi has been beaten back by the coalition. But U.S. air power remains the coalition&#8217;s most potent weapon. How much of our air arsenal will remain at the coalition&#8217;s disposal? For how long?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2011\/mar\/29\/goals-on-libya-still-murky\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama tried Monday night to clarify America&#8217;s goals &#8212; and methods &#8212; in Libya. Unfortunately, though, just as the international coalition&#8217;s air strikes have so far left dictator Moammar Gadhafi in power, the president&#8217;s speech to the nation from<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25358\">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":[40,50,202,209,143,199,200,144,531],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25358","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-england-uk","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-libya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25358","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=25358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}