{"id":14730,"date":"2017-11-03T18:55:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T22:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=14730"},"modified":"2017-11-03T18:55:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T22:55:20","slug":"u-s-strikes-target-islamic-state-militants-in-somalia-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/u-s-strikes-target-islamic-state-militants-in-somalia-official\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. strikes target Islamic State militants in Somalia: official"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s4.reutersmedia.net\/resources_v2\/images\/rcom-default.png?w=980&#038;ssl=1' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Did you know we were bombing in Somalia?  I guess if you say you&#8217;re bombing rhe #IslamicState, it makes it OK to open up another front in an undeclared war on an ideolgy pretty much wherever you want.<\/p>\n<p>The #WarOnTerror, like the #WarOnDrugs is a FAILED artificial construct of the US Government to justify its actions which fall outside the limits of our Constitution. Prosecuting wars in any country we choose, in the name of &#8220;safety&#8221; is not any more Constitutional than it is making us safer. Every bomb dropped creates new martyrs and new &#8216;terrorists&#8217; to avenge the deaths of family and innocents. Every ILLEGAL bomb we are dropping in a war which our Congress has never declared.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not &#8220;winning&#8221; anything, if victory requires the murder of civilian women and children in the name of victory. War must be a last refuge in a civilized society, not a preemptive step you take to ensure your survival when you &#8216;feel&#8217; threatened. You CANNOT fire the first shot and call it self defense.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reut.rs\/2lK09f4\">http:\/\/reut.rs\/2lK09f4<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know we were bombing in Somalia? I guess if you say you&#8217;re bombing rhe #IslamicState, it makes it OK to open up another front in an undeclared war on an ideolgy pretty much wherever you want. The #WarOnTerror, like the #WarOnDrugs is a FAILED artificial construct of the US Government to justify its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-14730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13443,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/horrific-afghanistan-bombing-highlights-stalemate-in-longest-u-s-war\/","url_meta":{"origin":14730,"position":0},"title":"Horrific Afghanistan bombing highlights stalemate in longest U.S. war","date":"May 31, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Let's go back in history, just a few short years. 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