{"id":39765,"date":"2013-08-27T16:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/washington_post_after_syria_chemical_allegations_obama_considering_limited_\/"},"modified":"2013-08-27T16:00:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T16:00:35","slug":"washington_post_after_syria_chemical_allegations_obama_considering_limited_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39765","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post) After Syria chemical allegations, Obama considering limited military strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama is weighing a military strike against Syria that would be of limited scope and duration, designed to serve as punishment for Syria\u2019s use of chemical weapons and as a deterrent, while keeping the United States out of deeper involvement in that country\u2019s civil war, according to senior administration officials.<\/p>\n<p>The timing of such an attack, which would probably last no more than two days and involve sea-launched cruise missiles \u201d\u201d or, possibly, long-range bombers \u201d\u201d striking military targets not directly related to Syria\u2019s chemical weapons arsenal, would be dependent on three factors: completion of an intelligence report assessing Syrian government culpability in last week\u2019s alleged chemical attack; ongoing consultation with allies and Congress; and determination of a justification under international law.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/kerry-obama-determined-to-hold-syria-accountable-for-using-chemical-weapons\/2013\/08\/26\/599450c2-0e70-11e3-8cdd-bcdc09410972_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama is weighing a military strike against Syria that would be of limited scope and duration, designed to serve as punishment for Syria\u2019s use of chemical weapons and as a deterrent, while keeping the United States out of deeper<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39765\">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":[39,40,50,143,149,168,144,617,203,616,151,667,95,618,556,584,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-defense-national-security-military","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-house-of-representatives","category-middle-east","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-science-technology","category-senate","category-syria","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39765","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=39765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}