{"id":46170,"date":"2014-08-18T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=46170"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:30:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:30:43","slug":"us-just-not-sure-who-to-bomb-in-the-middle-east-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/08\/us-just-not-sure-who-to-bomb-in-the-middle-east-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"US Just Not Sure Who to Bomb in the Middle East Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, US 10 Aug 2014<\/em> \u2013 An exhausted looking Barack Obama told US citizens Friday that after weeks of meetings with senior military officials he was still \u201cmostly clueless\u201d about who he should bomb in the Middle East. The statement days after US forces began air strikes against Islamic State forces in Iraq, despite their opposition to Syrian leader Bashar Al-Assad, who the US also consider an enemy and have considered bombing.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople of America, up till now, choosing which bad guy from the Arab world to drop hundreds of thousands of tons of explosives on was a simple, clear cut decision,\u201d he said in a live televised address. \u201cBut making a choice about who to unleash the full force of US military might has become fraught with difficulties.\u201d<\/p>\n

The US president also revealed that \u201cbombing the shit\u201d out of Libya in the final months of Colonel Gaddafi\u2019s rule hadn\u2019t \u201cexactly resulted in the peaceful, democratic state we had been hoping for\u201d, while America\u2019s involvement in Iraq could result in a new US bombing campaign \u201cevery four to five years\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cSure, we may be bombing ISIS now, but just as they emerged from the ashes of Saddam\u2019s dictatorship, which we bombed the crap out of, whatever comes next will inevitably have to be bombed to ashes in the future,\u201d he said, adding that concerns regarding the effectiveness of US bombing in the Middle East were \u201cirresponsible\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ending the speech on a lighter note, Obama joked that he was \u201cjust pleased to have bought shares in Raytheon\u201d.<\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 panarabianenquirer.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An exhausted Barack Obama told US citizens that he was \u201cmostly clueless\u201d about who he should bomb in the Middle East. The statement days after US forces began air strikes against Islamic State forces in Iraq, despite their opposition to Syrian leader Bashar Al-Assad, who the US also consider an enemy and have considered bombing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}