{"id":39804,"date":"2013-08-30T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_the_ethics_of_a_syrian_military_intervention_the_experts_respond\/"},"modified":"2013-08-30T15:00:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T15:00:49","slug":"rns_the_ethics_of_a_syrian_military_intervention_the_experts_respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39804","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) The ethics of a Syrian military intervention: The experts respond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Obama administration readies for a probable military strike against Syria, Religion News Service asked a panel of theologians and policy experts whether the U.S. should intervene in Syria in light of the regime\u2019s use of chemical weapons against civilians. Would the \u201cJust War\u201d\u009d doctrine justify U.S. military action, and what is America\u2019s moral responsibility? Here are their responses, which have been edited for clarity.<\/p>\n<p>Take the time to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2013\/08\/29\/the-ethics-of-a-syrian-military-intervention-the-experts-respond\">read them all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Obama administration readies for a probable military strike against Syria, Religion News Service asked a panel of theologians and policy experts whether the U.S. should intervene in Syria in light of the regime\u2019s use of chemical weapons against<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39804\">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":[39,40,50,209,143,168,144,203,151,556,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39804","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-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-middle-east","category-politics-in-general","category-syria","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39804","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=39804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}