{"id":10638,"date":"2016-10-18T15:36:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T19:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=10638"},"modified":"2016-10-18T15:36:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T19:36:30","slug":"war-under-the-authority-of-our-indifference-michael-brendan-dougherty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2016\/10\/war-under-the-authority-of-our-indifference-michael-brendan-dougherty.html","title":{"rendered":"War &#8220;Under the Authority of Our Indifference&#8221;: Michael Brendan Dougherty"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nobel Peace Prize recipient Barack Obama is now facing some tough decisions about two countries he is bombing in the Middle East. Watching the demoralizing carnage in Syria and an uptick in the hostilities in Yemen, an itchy press corps and policy class are starting to demand that Obama sack up and really fight. They warn him that he is the president who did nothing while Iran burned down the Middle East. But listening to that advice could radically shape Obama\u2019s legacy for the worse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/655179\/obama-foolishly-escalate-secret-wars\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>writes: Nobel Peace Prize recipient Barack Obama is now facing some tough decisions about two countries he is bombing in the Middle East. Watching the demoralizing carnage in Syria and an uptick in the hostilities in Yemen, an itchy press corps and policy class are starting to demand that Obama sack up and really fight. 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