{"id":29894,"date":"2017-10-24T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=29894"},"modified":"2017-10-24T09:11:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T17:11:00","slug":"pentagon-expands-terror-war-to-africa-where-is-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/24\/pentagon-expands-terror-war-to-africa-where-is-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Expands &#8216;Terror War&#8217; To Africa: Where Is Congress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Lindsey Graham told NBC News over the weekend that he had &#8220;no idea&#8221; that there were 1,000 US troops in Niger. But it didn&#8217;t bother him at all. He promised that the US military \u2013 which already has troops in 53 of the 54 countries in Africa \u2013 will soon be far more involved in fighting on the continent. We don&#8217;t want the next 9\/11 to come from Niger, he warned. Should Congress at least show an interest in this new, expanded war? Join us for today&#8217;s Ron Paul Liberty Report:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3DKfCshlXeo\" 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>Senator Lindsey Graham told NBC News over the weekend that he had &#8220;no idea&#8221; that there were 1,000 US troops in Niger. But it didn&#8217;t bother him at all. He promised that the US military \u2013 which already has troops in 53 of the 54 countries in Africa \u2013 will soon be far more involved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"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-29894","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\/29894","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\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29896,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29894\/revisions\/29896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29894"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=29894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}