{"id":21972,"date":"2013-10-07T12:10:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T20:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=21972"},"modified":"2013-10-07T12:32:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T20:32:48","slug":"kerry-if-you-question-the-legality-of-us-actions-you-are-with-the-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/07\/kerry-if-you-question-the-legality-of-us-actions-you-are-with-the-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry: If You Question the Legality of US Actions, You Are With the Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Washington Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/oct\/7\/john-kerry-insists-seizure-terrorist-suspect-legal\/\">reports<\/a> that since &#8220;Libya\u00a0and the nation\u2019s allies have questioned the legality of the U.S. operation&#8221; that captured a suspected al-Qaeda member, Secretary of State Kerry was prompted &#8220;to do some public relations damage control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In his damage control to justify the operations, Kerry said, &#8220;I think it\u2019s important for people in the world not to sympathize with alleged terrorists but to underscore the importance of the rule of law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s unpack that. According to Kerry, anyone that questions the legality of U.S. actions is &#8220;sympathizing with alleged terrorists.&#8221; Even more strangely, anyone who underscores the importance of the rule of law\u00a0vis-\u00e0-vis U.S. actions needs to be encouraged to &#8220;underscore the importance of the rule of law.&#8221; Kerry&#8217;s use of the latter phrase apparently means the exact opposite of what you&#8217;d expect given, you know, the English language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that since &#8220;Libya\u00a0and the nation\u2019s allies have questioned the legality of the U.S. operation&#8221; that captured a suspected al-Qaeda member, Secretary of State Kerry was prompted &#8220;to do some public relations damage control.&#8221; In his damage control to justify the operations, Kerry said, &#8220;I think it\u2019s important for people in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"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-21972","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\/21972","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\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21975,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21972\/revisions\/21975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21972"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=21972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}