{"id":62737,"date":"2017-04-13T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62737"},"modified":"2017-04-12T10:12:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T15:12:18","slug":"if-only-itd-been-bushs-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62737","title":{"rendered":"If Only It&#8217;d Been Bush&#8217;s Fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under Obama and Secretary of State Clinton, the US participated in the overthrow of Muammar Gadhaffi.<\/p>\n<p>The result <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-american-interest.com\/2017\/04\/11\/from-responsibility-to-protect-to-slave-markets\/\">has been less than stellar<\/a>\u00a0(emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If a Republican President had invaded Libya and overthrown its government, then left bloody chaos, terrorism and rampant arms smuggling behind, our courageous press corps would be all over the story like a chicken on a June bug.<\/p>\n<p>But fortunately all this happened under President Obama, so we don\u2019t hear all that much about it. And when we do, nobody tries to assign blame to the arrogant ignoramuses who \u201corganized\u201d this disaster.<\/p>\n<p>But the latest news, that <strong>slave markets are now operating in Libya<\/strong>, where desperate black Africans are being bought and sold as slaves, ought to trigger some kind of response. . . .Again, if Republicans were responsible for this it would be the Biggest. Disaster. Ever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since the left can&#8217;t (plausibly, even by their standards) blame it on Bush anymore, expect them to deflect to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Or Kansas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under Obama and Secretary of State Clinton, the US participated in the overthrow of Muammar Gadhaffi. The result has been less than stellar\u00a0(emphasis added): If a Republican President had invaded Libya and overthrown its government, then left bloody chaos, terrorism and rampant arms smuggling behind, our courageous press corps would be all over the story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62738,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62737\/revisions\/62738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}