{"id":37076,"date":"2013-02-01T07:08:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T07:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/independent_editorial_syrias_cracks_are_spreading\/"},"modified":"2013-02-01T07:08:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T07:08:02","slug":"independent_editorial_syrias_cracks_are_spreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37076","title":{"rendered":"Independent Editorial: Syria&#39;s cracks are spreading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Assad regime, Israeli warplanes have violated Syrian airspace and bombed a scientific research facility. According to Western security sources, the attack was against a convoy of sophisticated heavy weapons destined for Lebanon and Hezbollah. Israel itself is saying nothing; nor, officially, is the US. For all the obfuscation and confusion, however, what is chillingly clear is the danger of Syria\u2019s vicious civil war spilling over into a regional conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The situation inside the country is dismaying enough. More than 60,000 people have been killed in the near two years since the rebellion against Bashar al-Assad began. Although the regime\u2019s grip is weakening, the fight only gets bloodier; and as many as four million civilians have been displaced \u201d\u201c many of whom are now starving, freezing and dying from disease.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/editorials\/editorial-syrias-cracks-are-spreading-8475842.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Assad regime, Israeli warplanes have violated Syrian airspace and bombed a scientific research facility. According to Western security sources, the attack was against a convoy of sophisticated heavy weapons destined for Lebanon and Hezbollah. Israel itself is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37076\">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":[39,40,50,143,144,203,151,556,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-middle-east","category-politics-in-general","category-syria","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37076","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=37076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}