{"id":23309,"date":"2015-11-17T21:30:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T02:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=23309"},"modified":"2015-11-17T21:30:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T02:30:37","slug":"president-obamas-cynical-refugee-ploy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/23309\/president-obamas-cynical-refugee-ploy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;President Obama&#8217;s Cynical Refugee Ploy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To understand the Syrian refugee crisis, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-american-interest.com\/2015\/11\/17\/president-obamas-cynical-refugee-ploy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Walter Russell Mead\u2019s analysis<\/a> in <em>The American Interest<\/em> is a must read and then must read again.\u00a0 Mead is not a politician; he\u2019s a Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College and Professor of American foreign policy at Yale University.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHe asks and answers, in no uncertain terms, \u201cWhy is there a Syrian refugee crisis in the first place?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the piece <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-american-interest.com\/2015\/11\/17\/president-obamas-cynical-refugee-ploy\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To understand the Syrian refugee crisis, Walter Russell Mead\u2019s analysis in The American Interest is a must read and then must read again.\u00a0 Mead is not a politician; he\u2019s a Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College and Professor of American foreign policy at Yale University. \u00a0 He asks and answers, in no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4780,2414,4779,2164],"class_list":["post-23309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-refugee-crisis","tag-syria","tag-the-american-interest","tag-walter-russell-mead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23310,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23309\/revisions\/23310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}