{"id":39983,"date":"2013-09-10T03:20:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T03:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/washington_post_obama_calls_chemical_arms_proposal_a_potential_breakthrough\/"},"modified":"2013-09-10T03:20:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T03:20:10","slug":"washington_post_obama_calls_chemical_arms_proposal_a_potential_breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39983","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post) President Obama calls chemical arms proposal a potential \u201d\u02dcbreakthrough\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama on Monday called a Russian proposal for Syria to turn over control of its chemical weapons to international monitors in order to avoid a military strike a \u201cpotentially positive development,\u201d\u009d that could represent a \u201csignificant breakthrough,\u201d\u009d but he said he remains skeptical the Syrian government would follow through on its obligations based on its recent track record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBetween the statements that we saw from the Russians \u201d\u201d the statement today from the Syrians \u201d\u201d this represents a potentially positive development,\u201d\u009d Obama said in an interview with NBC News, according to a transcript provided by the network. \u201cWe are going to run this to ground.  [Secretary of State] John Kerry will be talking to his Russian counterpart. We\u2019re going to make sure that we see how serious these proposals are.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/john-kerry-in-london-campaigns-for-world-to-support-military-strike-against-syria\/2013\/09\/09\/e8ad7a72-193d-11e3-80ac-96205cacb45a_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama on Monday called a Russian proposal for Syria to turn over control of its chemical weapons to international monitors in order to avoid a military strike a \u201cpotentially positive development,\u201d\u009d that could represent a \u201csignificant breakthrough,\u201d\u009d but he<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39983\">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":[39,40,50,143,617,203,616,151,667,95,618,556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-defense-national-security-military","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39983","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=39983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}