{"id":31309,"date":"2012-08-06T05:40:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T09:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31309"},"modified":"2012-08-06T05:40:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T09:40:26","slug":"tell-me-again-why-we-should-support-the-syrian-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31309","title":{"rendered":"Tell Me Again Why We Should Support the Syrian Opposition . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . when some of the major players are our enemies?  <\/p>\n<p>Why do I say that?  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/middleeast\/syria\/9450587\/Muslim-Brotherhood-establishes-militia-inside-Syria.html\">Muslim Brotherhood has apparently set up shop there and raised a militia to fight against the Assad regime<\/a>.  They aren&#8217;t exactly friends to the West or western culture.  And al Qaeda is apparently also there working behind the scenes with the Syrian opposition.  I just don&#8217;t get it.  <\/p>\n<p>And if the way Libya and Egypt have turned out are any indication, apparently neither does the Obama administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . when some of the major players are our enemies? Why do I say that? The Muslim Brotherhood has apparently set up shop there and raised a militia to fight against the Assad regime. They aren&#8217;t exactly friends to the West or western culture. And al Qaeda is apparently also there working behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-military-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-88Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}