{"id":5469,"date":"2012-09-24T11:08:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T16:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5469"},"modified":"2012-09-24T11:08:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T16:08:44","slug":"debate-question-for-our-candidates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5469","title":{"rendered":"Debate Question for our Candidates #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing (for a while &#8230; if this keeps getting ignored I&#8217;ll probably stop) the debate &#8230; a question for our candidates:<\/p>\n<p>Strategy amounts to setting long term goals and objectives, tactics is the means of getting from here to there.\u00a0Arguably we&#8217;ve been without a coherent Middle East strategy for decades, and we&#8217;ve replacing any strategy with a disconnected set of of short term tactical responses to developing situations. What would you identify as the key elements of a US Middle East strategy, Could you briefly describe what you envision as our strategic goals and objectives for the region?<\/p>\n<p>Follow up: What do you see as the first tactical step moving in that direction?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing (for a while &#8230; if this keeps getting ignored I&#8217;ll probably stop) the debate &#8230; a question for our candidates: Strategy amounts to setting long term goals and objectives, tactics is the means of getting from here to there.\u00a0Arguably we&#8217;ve been without a coherent Middle East strategy for decades, and we&#8217;ve replacing any strategy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[951,58,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debate-politics","category-marko","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}