{"id":386,"date":"2016-06-16T14:09:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T21:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.wehle.org\/?p=386"},"modified":"2016-06-16T14:09:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T21:09:15","slug":"mccain-blames-obama-for-orlando-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"McCain blames Obama for Orlando shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cBarack Obama is directly responsible for it, because when he pulled everybody out of Iraq, al Qaeda went to Syria, became ISIS, and ISIS is what it is today thanks to Barack Obama\u2019s failures,&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>McCain said, according to The Washington Post as cited in a Huffington Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/mccain-says-obama-is-directly-responsible-for-the-orlando-massacre_us_5762f78be4b0df4d586f9275\">article<\/a>. I am not a Washington Post subscriber, and didn&#8217;t read the original. The Huffington Post piece doesn&#8217;t explain the connection between ISIS in Syria and a\u00a0gay club shooting in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>James Harkin has an interesting perspective on the rise of ISIS in Syria:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By the time it was rolled out, ISIS wasn&#8217;t so much a diktat from Iraq as a meeting of jihadi minds\u2014one buttressed by networks of recruits that had already been established in Europe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\u2014James Harkin,\u00a0<em>Hunting Season<\/em>, (New York: Hachette Books, 2015), 94.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBarack Obama is directly responsible for it, because when he pulled everybody out of Iraq, al Qaeda went to Syria, became ISIS, and ISIS is what it is today thanks to Barack Obama\u2019s failures,&#8220; McCain said, according to The Washington &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=386\">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-386","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\/386","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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}