{"id":1992,"date":"2011-06-23T01:28:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T08:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1992"},"modified":"2011-06-23T01:28:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T08:28:02","slug":"obama-limits-criticism-of-ongoing-arab-spring-violent-crackdowns-in-syria-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1992","title":{"rendered":"Obama Limits Criticism of Ongoing Arab Spring Violent Crackdowns in Syria, Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/embed_show_v2\/300\/2011\/6\/22\/story\/obama_limits_criticism_of_ongoing_arab\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Obama Limits Criticism of Ongoing Arab Spring Violent Crackdowns in Syria, Bahrain<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration has issued minor criticism of human rights abuses against peaceful protests by President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime in Syria and the monarchy in Bahrain. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just recently said the conflict in Yemen would end only if President Ali Abdullah Saleh &#8220;steps down.&#8221; We speak with University of Michigan Professor Juan Cole about why the United States has not been more vocal in supporting these pro-democracy movements in a region of strategic importance. [includes rush transcript]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2011\/6\/22\/obama_limits_criticism_of_ongoing_arab\">&#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%3D1992&amp;text=+Obama+Limits+Criticism+of+Ongoing+Arab+Spring+Violent+Crackdowns+in+Syria%2C+Bahrain&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama Limits Criticism of Ongoing Arab Spring Violent Crackdowns in Syria, Bahrain The Obama administration has issued minor criticism of human rights abuses against peaceful protests by President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime in Syria and the monarchy in Bahrain. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just recently said the conflict in Yemen would end only if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1992#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[1337],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992"}],"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=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}