{"id":39869,"date":"2013-09-03T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_senators_mccain_and_graham_express_optimism_on_obama_syria_plan\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T15:00:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T15:00:29","slug":"usa_today_senators_mccain_and_graham_express_optimism_on_obama_syria_plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39869","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) Senators McCain and Graham express optimism on Obama Syria plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McCain and Graham have jointly expressed concerns that a military strike should be part of a broader strategy in Syria, not simply a random attack to punish the regime.<\/p>\n<p>After meeting with Obama Monday, they both said they believed the White House is developing a strategy that would weaken the regime of President Bashar Assad and boost Syrian opposition forces \u201d\u201d though they said Obama has more work to do to explain this plan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We still have significant concerns,&#8221; McCain said, &#8220;but we believe there is in formulation a strategy to upgrade the capabilities of the Free Syrian Army and to degrade the capabilities of Bashar Assad. Before this meeting, we had not had that indication.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2013\/09\/02\/white-house-syria-congress-mccain\/2755051\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McCain and Graham have jointly expressed concerns that a military strike should be part of a broader strategy in Syria, not simply a random attack to punish the regime. After meeting with Obama Monday, they both said they believed the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39869\">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":[39,40,50,209,143,168,617,564,203,616,151,667,618,556,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39869","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-house-of-representatives","category-iran","category-middle-east","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-syria","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39869","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=39869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}