{"id":38163,"date":"2013-05-06T20:58:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T20:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wash-_post_reported_israeli_airstrikes_in_syria_could_accelerate_u-s-_decis\/"},"modified":"2013-05-06T20:58:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T20:58:53","slug":"wash-_post_reported_israeli_airstrikes_in_syria_could_accelerate_u-s-_decis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38163","title":{"rendered":"(Wash. Post) Reported Israeli airstrikes in Syria could accelerate U.S. decision process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s reported airstrikes in Syria \u201d\u201d and the threat of a retaliatory strike by the Syrian government \u201d\u201d are likely to accelerate the decision-making of the Obama administration, which was already moving toward a sharp escalation of U.S. involvement in the two-year-old crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Senior officials said the deployment of U.S. troops to Syria remains unlikely, but they have indicated that a decision will come within weeks on options ranging from the supply of weapons to the Syrian rebels to the use of U.S. aircraft and missiles to ground President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s air power by destroying planes, runways and missile sites inside Syria.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/reported-israeli-airstrikes-in-syria-could-accelerate-us-decision-making\/2013\/05\/05\/72c6eafc-b5c2-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_story.html?hpid=z1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s reported airstrikes in Syria \u201d\u201d and the threat of a retaliatory strike by the Syrian government \u201d\u201d are likely to accelerate the decision-making of the Obama administration, which was already moving toward a sharp escalation of U.S. involvement in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38163\">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":[40,50,209,143,144,565,203,151,556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38163","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=38163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}