{"id":29099,"date":"2018-04-10T03:19:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T03:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29099"},"modified":"2018-04-10T03:19:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T03:19:43","slug":"yes-mr-potus-you-need-to-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29099","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Mr. POTUS, you need to act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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You aren’t likely to believe this, but I’ll say it anyway.<\/p>\n

I truly want Donald Trump to do the right thing regarding a possible U.S. response to Syria’s latest use of chemical weapons on innocent Syrian civilians — including women and children.<\/p>\n

I also want the president to keep shining the light of accountability on the Russian government, which has sponsored Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad’s brutality<\/a>. Trump said the Russians could pay a heavy price if the United States decides to use military force against the Syrians.<\/p>\n

Does that mean Vladimir Putin — who has escaped much of the fiery rhetoric that comes from Trump — will pay a price, too?<\/p>\n

I do hope so.<\/p>\n

I do not want U.S. troops to remain in Syria. I do not want us to get swept up in the civil war that has killed more than 400,000 Syrians.<\/p>\n

If the president is going to strike a tough-guy posture with regard to crimes against humanity, he needs also to single out Russia, which is wallowing in the filth of those crimes in Syria.<\/p>\n

I am among millions of Americans who cannot understand why Trump has gone so soft on Putin and the government he leads. I also am among those Americans who is waiting for some sign that Trump’s infatuation with Putin has ended.<\/p>\n

Finally!<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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You aren’t likely to believe this, but I’ll say it anyway. I truly want Donald Trump to do the right thing regarding a possible U.S. response to Syria’s latest use of chemical weapons on innocent Syrian civilians — including women and children. I also want the president to keep shining the light of accountability on … Continue reading Yes, Mr. POTUS, you need to act<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[556,1424,4492,5125],"class_list":["post-29099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-donald-trump","tag-syrian-civil-war","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29100,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29099\/revisions\/29100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}