{"id":26379,"date":"2011-05-26T17:09:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T17:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_newspaper_editorial-the_libyan_witching_hour\/"},"modified":"2011-05-26T17:09:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T17:09:46","slug":"local_newspaper_editorial-the_libyan_witching_hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26379","title":{"rendered":"Local Newspaper Editorial&#8211;The Libyan &#39;witching hour&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As NATO&#8217;s military campaign against Moammar Gadhafi&#8217;s Libyan regime continued last week, the 60-day deadline for U.S. participation expired, based on the 1973 War Powers Resolution. So it&#8217;s debatable whether President Obama has the legal authority for continued use of U.S. forces in the Libyan campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;witching hour&#8221; has arrived.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the president hasn&#8217;t made a persuasive case for ignoring the deadline. He owes the American people an explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Polls show declining public support for this intervention, despite the president&#8217;s repeated upbeat assessments of its progress&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2011\/may\/26\/the-libyan-witching-hour\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As NATO&#8217;s military campaign against Moammar Gadhafi&#8217;s Libyan regime continued last week, the 60-day deadline for U.S. participation expired, based on the 1973 War Powers Resolution. So it&#8217;s debatable whether President Obama has the legal authority for continued use of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26379\">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":[40,50,202,143,144,531,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-libya","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26379","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=26379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}