{"id":2646,"date":"2017-04-11T23:45:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T23:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2017-04-11T23:45:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T23:45:52","slug":"something-doesnt-pass-the-smell-test-on-he-missile-attack-on-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=2646","title":{"rendered":"Something doesn’t pass the smell test on the missile attack on Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TERRY MOSHER<\/p>\n

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Pardon me if I\u2019m suspicious of the missile attack on Syria and all the suddenly ugly rhetoric being issued by both our government and the Russians. I\u2019m likely wrong on this, but being a reporter does that to oneself \u2013 becoming cynical. You know the missiles fired \u2013 our government says 59 were fired and the Russians say only 23 arrived at the airbase that was targeted \u2013 did not do damage to the runways, and to me that is highly suspicious. Yeah, I know that the part-time occupier of the White House said the runways were not targeted because it\u2019s easy to fix them, but that is not true. We have what is called anti-runway penetration bombs that would have made them unusable. Instead, the Syrians and likely the Russians became flying off from the runways just hours after the attack. So the cynic in me says why spend $29.5 million worth of missiles (each costs a half-million) if you don\u2019t want to do the most damage? Something smells rotten. Then I\u2019m amused that our top national defense officials have given off mixed signals on how to treat Russian and while there has been some threatening comments made on both sides, I think it\u2019s all phony and done to cover-up the cover-up that the FBI and other of our intelligence agencies are trying to unravel concerning how much the Russians influenced our election and how much if any cooperation they got from the Trump campaign and maybe from the monster himself. Now we will see what comes out of Rex Tillerson\u2019s visit to Moscow that is going on right now. Tillerson isn\u2019t scheduled to meet Vladimir Putin, who once received the Russian Order of Friendship from him. This is a revolving circus and to better understand what is going on I think it\u2019s good \u2013 and necessary \u2013 not to take anything said at face value, but to watch for actions that follow meetings like this. That will be the truth. God help us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TERRY MOSHER   Pardon me if I\u2019m suspicious of the missile attack on Syria and all the suddenly ugly rhetoric…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-column","category-mosher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2648,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions\/2648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}