{"id":18042,"date":"2012-12-12T16:23:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T15:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=18042"},"modified":"2012-12-12T16:23:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T15:23:40","slug":"us-recognizes-unelected-terrorists-as-syrian-representatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/us-recognizes-unelected-terrorists-as-syrian-representatives\/","title":{"rendered":"US Recognizes Unelected Terrorists as Syrian &#8216;Representatives&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Tony Cartalucci,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/2012\/12\/us-recognizes-unelected-terrorists-as.html\">Activist Post<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As expected, after a long pause of feigned &#8220;consideration,&#8221; the US has recognized the militants it has been arming, funding, aiding logistically and supporting diplomatically\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/landdestroyer.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/syrian-war-prequel.html\">since as early as 2007<\/a>, as the &#8220;legitimate representatives of the Syrian people,&#8221; with the added caveat, &#8220;in opposition to the Assad regime.&#8221; The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324339204578173272657834096.html\">Wall Street Journal would report<\/a>\u00a0that US President Barack Obama&#8217;s announcement actually read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Syrian National Coalition for Revolutionary and Opposition Forces is reflective and representative enough of the Syrian population that we consider them the legitimate representative of the Syrian people in opposition to the Assad regime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The bizarre, uncertain wording sends a message of both uncertainty and resounding illegitimacy, indicating that the US itself recognizes the true nature of the so-called &#8220;Syrian&#8221; opposition is apparent to an increasing number of people both in public office and across the public, and that a certain degree of rhetorical distance must be kept.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><a title=\"US Recognizes Unelected Terrorists as Syrian 'Representatives' \" href=\"http:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/2012\/12\/us-recognizes-unelected-terrorists-as.html#more\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Cartalucci,\u00a0Activist Post\u00a0|\u00a0 As expected, after a long pause of feigned &#8220;consideration,&#8221; the US has recognized the militants it has been arming, funding, aiding logistically and supporting diplomatically\u00a0since as early as 2007, as the &#8220;legitimate representatives of the Syrian people,&#8221; with the added caveat, &#8220;in opposition to the Assad regime.&#8221; The\u00a0Wall Street Journal would report\u00a0that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1616,16],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-18042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-latest-news","7":"category-usa-news","8":"category-war-terrorism","9":"tag-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}