{"id":109,"date":"2014-11-23T11:57:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T19:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.wehle.org\/?p=109"},"modified":"2014-11-23T11:57:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T19:57:20","slug":"us-respect-for-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"US Respect for Sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The White House was still considering an Air Force option, a massive air strike using B-2 Spirit bombers to level the house.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Robert Gates supported the air strike because it kept American ground forces out of Pakistan, which made the mission less like an invasion of the country&#8217;s sovereignty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8211;Matt Bissonnette, <em>No Easy Day<\/em>, (New York, Penguin, 2012), 171.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This refers to plans to kill Osama bin Laden in his home in Abottabad, Pakistan. <em>No Easy Day<\/em> and Scahill&#8217;s <em>Dirty Wars<\/em> detail a US entitled to kill anyone, anywhere, quite unlike\u00a0the\u00a0just America\u00a0we\u00a0were taught\u00a0in junior high school civics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House was still considering an Air Force option, a massive air strike using B-2 Spirit bombers to level the house. Defense Secretary Robert Gates supported the air strike because it kept American ground forces out of Pakistan, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=109\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}