{"id":17903,"date":"2013-01-23T13:07:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T21:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=17903"},"modified":"2013-01-23T13:27:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T21:27:14","slug":"rand-paul-benghazi-attack-worst-tragedy-since-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/23\/rand-paul-benghazi-attack-worst-tragedy-since-911\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul: Benghazi Attack &#8220;Worst Tragedy Since 9\/11&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his questioning of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today, Sen. Rand Paul characerterized the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi as the &#8220;worst tragedy since 9\/11.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad that Rand made it warm for Hillary, but the invasion of Iraq was a much greater tragedy than Benghazi&#8230;.\u00a0 as were plenty of other post 9\/11 policies.<\/p>\n<p>(I discussed some of Rand Paul&#8217;s foreign policy views in a November review of his book, Government Bullies in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/getting-a-read-on-rand-paul\/\">American Conservative<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his questioning of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today, Sen. Rand Paul characerterized the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi as the &#8220;worst tragedy since 9\/11.&#8221; I&#8217;m glad that Rand made it warm for Hillary, but the invasion of Iraq was a much greater tragedy than Benghazi&#8230;.\u00a0 as were plenty of other post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-17903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17905,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17903\/revisions\/17905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17903"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}