{"id":352,"date":"2016-05-22T16:11:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T23:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.wehle.org\/?p=352"},"modified":"2016-05-22T16:19:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T23:19:51","slug":"assassination-as-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Assassination as response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/may\/22\/pakistan-us-drone-strike-taliban-violated-its-sovereignty\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf people want to stand in the way of peace and continue to threaten and kill and blow people up, we have no recourse but to respond, and I think we responded appropriately.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\u2014John Kerry, explaining a US missile attack blowing up the\u00a0occupants of a vehicle in Pakistan<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/may\/22\/death-of-mullah-akhtar-mansoor-likely-to-enrage-pakistan\">More<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a highly unusual public statement about a drone strike, a Pentagon official described Mansoor as \u201can obstacle to peace and reconciliation between the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban, prohibiting Taliban leaders from participating in peace talks with the Afghan government\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We blew the Taliban leader up because he\u00a0was an obstacle to\u00a0reconciliation between\u00a0the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian: \u201cIf people want to stand in the way of peace and continue to threaten and kill and blow people up, we have no recourse but to respond, and I think we responded appropriately.\u201d \u2014John Kerry, explaining a US &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=352\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}