{"id":38148,"date":"2013-05-05T22:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T22:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_israeli_airstrikes_may_have_exposed_syrian_flaw_u-s-_officials_say\/"},"modified":"2013-05-05T22:00:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T22:00:44","slug":"la_times_israeli_airstrikes_may_have_exposed_syrian_flaw_u-s-_officials_say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38148","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times) Israeli airstrikes may have exposed Syrian flaw, U.S. officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent Israeli strikes inside Syria may have exposed weaknesses in the regime\u2019s air defenses and could embolden the U.S. and its allies to take more steps to aid rebels fighting the regime there, said lawmakers on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Russian-supplied air defense systems are not as good as said,\u201d\u009d Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) said on NBC\u2019s &#8220;Meet the Press.&#8221; Leahy, who heads the appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations, said the Israeli defense forces were using American-made F-16 Fighting Falcon jets to launch the missiles against Syrian targets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeep in mind the Israelis are using weapons supplied by us,\u201d\u009d Leahy said. \u201cThey have enormous prowess with those weapons.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/world\/worldnow\/la-fg-wn-israel-syria-us-20130505,0,7802333.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent Israeli strikes inside Syria may have exposed weaknesses in the regime\u2019s air defenses and could embolden the U.S. and its allies to take more steps to aid rebels fighting the regime there, said lawmakers on Sunday. \u201cThe Russian-supplied air<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38148\">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":[39,40,50,209,143,144,565,203,151,95,556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-israel","category-middle-east","category-politics-in-general","category-science-technology","category-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38148","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=38148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}