{"id":1522,"date":"2011-03-21T09:49:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T13:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2011-03-21T09:49:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T13:49:15","slug":"todays-stray-political-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/?p=1522","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Stray Political Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the <em>intensity<\/em> of the reaction to the President&#8217;s decision to involve our military in the going&#8217;s on in Libya, I really wonder if he didn&#8217;t just cost himself the election?  Note, I&#8217;m not talking about the usual critics- this time the critics are his supporters.  Generally, outside of the sorts who I would expect to defend any decision the current President makes (and even from that group, I&#8217;ve been surprised at the lack of support) no one likes this decision and no one is bending over backwards to defend it.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I don&#8217;t know if his decision is a sound one.  I&#8217;m inclined to believe it isn&#8217;t- after all, what&#8217;s the strategic value of it from our perspective?  I&#8217;ve yet to see anything plausible.  The only thing I can think is the old &#8220;unknown unknowns.&#8221;  That is, the President and his advisors are surely in possession of intel which we are not and that information is the basis for the action.  It&#8217;s admittedly thin gruel, but that&#8217;s about all there can be at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the intensity of the reaction to the President&#8217;s decision to involve our military in the going&#8217;s on in Libya, I really wonder if he didn&#8217;t just cost himself the election? Note, I&#8217;m not talking about the usual critics- this time the critics are his supporters. Generally, outside of the sorts who I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}