{"id":35550,"date":"2020-07-17T12:12:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T20:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=35550"},"modified":"2020-07-17T12:12:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T20:12:40","slug":"rep-thomas-massie-on-gop-amendment-to-end-war-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/17\/rep-thomas-massie-on-gop-amendment-to-end-war-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Thomas Massie on GOP Amendment To End War in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\u201cA defense bill amendment to repeal authority for military force that has been in place since right after 9-11, effectively expediting plans for a full withdrawal and ending America\u2019s longest war.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Massie states the biggest obstacle may be that Democrat House Leader Nancy Pelosi will not allow it to come up for a vote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ICYMI: I joined <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxFriendsFirst?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FoxFriendsFirst<\/a> yesterday to talk about the need to finally end the war in Afghanistan, to not just withdraw some troops, but to withdraw all of the troops. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bRmRLKhXf0\">pic.twitter.com\/bRmRLKhXf0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepThomasMassie\/status\/1284145711072804864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><em><\/p>\n<p>Originally posted at the <a href=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/\">Libertarian Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA defense bill amendment to repeal authority for military force that has been in place since right after 9-11, effectively expediting plans for a full withdrawal and ending America\u2019s longest war.\u201d Massie states the biggest obstacle may be that Democrat House Leader Nancy Pelosi will not allow it to come up for a vote. ICYMI: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":442,"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-35550","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\/35550","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\/442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35550"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35552,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35550\/revisions\/35552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35550"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=35550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}