{"id":2404,"date":"2013-06-21T15:35:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T15:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2013-06-21T15:35:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T15:35:29","slug":"rand-paul-wants-to-block-obama-from-sending-aid-to-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/06\/21\/rand-paul-wants-to-block-obama-from-sending-aid-to-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul wants to block Obama from sending aid to Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is one of four senators on Capitol Hill who introduced a new bill Thursday that would block President Obama from getting involved in the Syrian civil war.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after the Obama administration announced plans last week to send arms to the rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime after determining Assad had been using chemical weapons on its people.<\/p>\n<p>The bill proposed Thursday would stop \u201cthe Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, or any other agency or entity of the United States involved in intelligence activities\u201d from \u201csupporting, directly or indirectly, military or paramilitary operations in Syria by any nation, group, organization, movement, or individual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President\u2019s unilateral decision to arm Syrian rebels is incredibly disturbing, considering what little we know about whom we are arming,\u201d Paul said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Said Paul: \u201cEngaging in yet another conflict in the Middle East with no vote or Congressional oversight compounds the severity of this situation. The American people deserve real deliberation by their elected officials before we send arms to a region rife with extremists who seek to threaten the U.S. and her allies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Full article: <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/06\/20\/rand-paul-wants-to-block-obama-from-sending-aid-to-syria\/\" href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/06\/20\/rand-paul-wants-to-block-obama-from-sending-aid-to-syria\/\">http:\/\/dailycaller.c \u2026 ending-aid-to-syria\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is one of four senators on Capitol Hill who introduced a new bill Thursday that would block President Obama from getting involved in the Syrian civil war. It comes after the Obama administration announced plans last week to send arms to the rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime after determining Assad had been using chemical weapons on its people. The bill proposed Thursday would stop \u201cthe Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, or any other agency or entity of the United States involved in intelligence activities\u201d from \u201csupporting, directly or indirectly, military or paramilitary operations in Syria by any nation, group, organization, movement, or individual.\u201d \u201cThe President\u2019s unilateral decision to arm Syrian rebels is incredibly disturbing, considering what little we know about whom we are arming,\u201d Paul said Thursday. Said Paul: \u201cEngaging in yet another conflict in the Middle East with no vote or Congressional oversight compounds the severity of this situation. The American people deserve real deliberation by their elected officials before we send arms to a region rife with extremists who seek to threaten the U.S. and her allies.\u201d Full article: http:\/\/dailycaller.c \u2026 ending-aid-to-syria\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1425,1690],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-rand-paul","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}