{"id":27941,"date":"2016-11-03T18:23:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T02:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=27941"},"modified":"2016-11-03T18:23:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T02:23:31","slug":"ron-paul-on-isis-mortal-threat-or-paper-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/03\/ron-paul-on-isis-mortal-threat-or-paper-tiger\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul on ISIS: Mortal Threat or Paper&nbsp;Tiger?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If ISIS is such a mortal threat to the United States, why has US military action in Iraq and Syria been proceeding at such a leisurely pace? Is it possible that ISIS and al-Qaeda in Syria are being used &#8212; or even supported &#8212; by the US and its allies as a &#8220;regime change&#8221; weapon against Syria&#8217;s Assad government? The US pursued this policy before, when it used Saudi-trained radicals to fight a Soviet-backed government in Afghanistan. Those radicals became al-Qaeda&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C2xAz6UxNyQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If ISIS is such a mortal threat to the United States, why has US military action in Iraq and Syria been proceeding at such a leisurely pace? Is it possible that ISIS and al-Qaeda in Syria are being used &#8212; or even supported &#8212; by the US and its allies as a &#8220;regime change&#8221; weapon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"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-27941","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\/27941","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\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27944,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27941\/revisions\/27944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27941"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=27941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}