{"id":17868,"date":"2013-08-30T17:36:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T23:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17868"},"modified":"2013-08-30T17:36:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T23:36:44","slug":"nato-to-sit-obamas-war-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17868","title":{"rendered":"NATO to Sit &#8220;Obama&#8217;s War&#8221; Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NATO Will Not Take Part in a Syria Strike: Anders Fogh Rasmussen<\/strong><br \/>\nShia Post -30 August, 2013<\/p>\n<p>NATO will not take part in military intervention in Syria, the alliance\u2019s Secretary-General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, told Denmark\u2019s Politiken newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t foresee any NATO role in an international response to the regime,\u201d Rasmussen said, adding that individual countries would decide whether to take part in any military action.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed there could be \u201cno doubt\u201d that the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad was responsible for using toxic gas against civilians near Damascus on August 21, as it \u201chad a store of chemical weapons and the means needed to perform an attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, NATO\u2019s Secretary-General said he didn\u2019t think intervention was the best way to solve the crisis, adding that a political solution would be \u201csustainable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt demands an international response, so it doesn\u2019t happen again,\u201d Rasmussen said.<\/p>\n<p>The NATO secretary general has in the past insisted on the need for a political solution to the Syrian crisis.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.shiapost.com\/2013\/08\/30\/nato-will-not-take-part-in-a-syria-strike-anders-fogh-rasmussen\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D17868&amp;text=NATO+to+Sit+%22Obama%27s+War%22+Out&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO Will Not Take Part in a Syria Strike: Anders Fogh Rasmussen Shia Post -30 August, 2013 NATO will not take part in military intervention in Syria, the alliance\u2019s Secretary-General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, told Denmark\u2019s Politiken newspaper. \u201cI don\u2019t foresee any NATO role in an international response to the regime,\u201d Rasmussen said, adding that individual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=17868#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2000],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17870,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17868\/revisions\/17870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}