{"id":14342,"date":"2013-09-03T08:37:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14342"},"modified":"2013-09-03T11:30:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T15:30:18","slug":"to-some-us-case-for-syrian-gas-attack-strike-has-too-many-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/09\/03\/to-some-us-case-for-syrian-gas-attack-strike-has-too-many-holes\/","title":{"rendered":"To some, US case for Syrian gas attack, strike has too many holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah Allam and Mark Seibel of the <em>McClatchy Washington Bureau<\/em> have written the article <a title=\"McClatchy article\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2013\/09\/02\/201027\/to-some-us-case-for-syrian-gas.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>To some, US case for Syrian gas attack, strike has too many holes<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama administration\u2019s public case for attacking Syria is riddled with inconsistencies and hinges mainly on circumstantial evidence, undermining U.S. efforts this week to build support at home and abroad for a punitive strike against Bashar Assad\u2019s regime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They have done an excellent job of reporting that does not just echo what one side has\u00a0 to say about the attack in Syria.\u00a0 They even identify some of the holes that I have not mentioned in my previous blog posts.<\/p>\n<p>One of my arguments all along has been that we should not be making life and death decisions when there are so many holes in the argument.\u00a0 If the Obama administration justifies retaliation with claims that the intelligence supports their conclusions, then they are going to have to shows us a lot of the actual evidence.\u00a0 If they would prefer to keep the evidence secret, then they are just going to have to accept the fact that they cannot use these secrets to justify what they want to do.\u00a0 It is up to Obama to decide which is more important, keeping secrets or taking action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah Allam and Mark Seibel of the McClatchy Washington Bureau have written the article To some, US case for Syrian gas attack, strike has too many holes. The Obama administration\u2019s public case for attacking Syria is riddled with inconsistencies and hinges mainly on circumstantial evidence, undermining U.S. efforts this week to build support at home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14344,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14342\/revisions\/14344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}