{"id":38031,"date":"2017-04-08T04:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38031"},"modified":"2017-04-07T15:26:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T19:26:17","slug":"trumps-syria-strike-wont-solve-any-problems-but-could-make-everything-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/04\/08\/trumps-syria-strike-wont-solve-any-problems-but-could-make-everything-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Syria Strike Won&#8217;t Solve Any Problems But Could Make Everything Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IzW8SvKpOUc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 7 Apr 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is in the vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the use of deadly chemical weapons,&#8221; said President Donald Trump in explaining a U.S.-missile strike on a Syrian airbase. That might sound good and even noble in theory, explains Emma Ashford of the Cato Institute, but the plain truth is that he&#8217;s wrong. What&#8217;s worse, it&#8217;s far from clear what either the United States or other countries in the region will do next.<\/p>\n<p>The essential lesson that George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and now Donald Trump keep forgetting is that military interventions, especially in other countries&#8217; civil wars, often makes things worse, Ashford tells Nick Gillespie.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Austin Bragg. Cameras by Todd Krainin and Mark McDaniel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 7 Apr 2017 &#8220;It is in the vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the use of deadly chemical weapons,&#8221; said President Donald Trump in explaining a U.S.-missile strike on a Syrian airbase. That might sound good and even noble in theory, explains Emma Ashford of the Cato [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,5,13],"tags":[158,1037,694,508],"class_list":["post-38031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-military","category-usa","tag-barackobama","tag-donaldtrump","tag-syria","tag-wmd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9Tp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38032,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38031\/revisions\/38032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}