{"id":4,"date":"2013-09-12T21:13:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T04:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/qclark\/?p=4"},"modified":"2013-10-02T18:20:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T01:20:08","slug":"former-kgb-agent-saves-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/qclark\/2013\/09\/12\/former-kgb-agent-saves-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Former KGB Agent Saves Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the chemical attack on its own people, the Syrian regime faced a very real threat: a military strike from the United States. With chemical attacks being illegal, Obama\u2019s idea of a military attack as punishment is in fact no better. \u201cThe fundamental rule of international law is that states cannot attack other states, even for humanitarian reasons\u201d. The only exceptions to this ruling are that: \u201ca state can attack another state if it is authorized to do so by a Security Council resolution, or if the attacking state is acting in genuine self-defense&#8221;. <a title=\"Former KGB Agent Saves Obama\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/qclark\/2013\/09\/12\/former-kgb-agent-saves-obama\/\">http:\/\/ideas.time.com\/2013\/09\/05\/obamas-plan-for-intervention-in-syria-is-illegal\/#ixzz2eV4EzTtX<\/a> In this instance, neither of these apply. Obama had two unappetizing choices: attack without the \u201cbacking of congress&#8230;and the United Nations; or execute an embarrassing about-face. At this point Obama has gotten himself into a very sticky situation. Luckily for him, the President of Russia; Vladimir Putin, may have solved Obama\u2019s by giving the U.S. president a way out. Simply put, Putin\u2019s proposal is to put Assad\u2019s chemical weapons under international control. <a title=\"Former KGB Agent Saves Obama\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/qclark\/2013\/09\/12\/former-kgb-agent-saves-obama\/\">http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/2013\/09\/11\/vladimir_putins_chemical_weapons_gambit_saves_obamas_bacon_walkom.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/timeswampland.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/09\/dv1549844.jpg?w=618\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the chemical attack on its own people, the Syrian regime faced a very real threat: a military strike from the United States. With chemical attacks being illegal, Obama\u2019s idea of a military attack as punishment is in fact no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/qclark\/2013\/09\/12\/former-kgb-agent-saves-obama\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/qclark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/qclark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/qclark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/qclark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/qclark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/qclark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/qclark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/qclark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/qclark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/qclark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}