{"id":1301236,"date":"2018-12-10T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/menconi-demand-a-yes-vote-on-the-war-powers-resolution\/"},"modified":"2018-12-10T14:43:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T21:43:00","slug":"menconi-demand-a-yes-vote-on-the-war-powers-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/menconi-demand-a-yes-vote-on-the-war-powers-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Menconi: Demand a Yes vote on the War Powers Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Arn Menconi<\/a><\/span> March 2015 saw sparks fly with the onset of civil war, as Yemeni Houthis overthrew the nation’s president and noted Saudi Arabian ally, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi \u2014 a move perceived as a threat by the Saudis \u2014 who thusly turned to the Obama administration to engender assistance from stolid if controversial partner, the United States, in the form of logistical, arms, strategic, refueling and other forms of support.
\nThis included support for the highly contentious blockade of Yemen’s ports by the Saudis, under the guise of cutting off a supply line of weapons and funding for the Houthis direct from Iran \u2014 despite Tehran’s insistence no such supply line or connections existed \u2014 during the lead-up to the historic Iran Deal.
\nSuch nuanced involvement was made possible with increasingly open-ended legislation enacted since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, as successive American presidents claim the omnipresent threat of terror and consequent need for tougher national security in order to expand U.S. military covert and overt presence around the globe. But the War on Terror \u2014 putatively fought in defense of the innocent against maleficent forces \u2014 has instead been a multi-pronged disaster for America. Beyond the nebulous war’s estimated price tag …read more<\/a> <\/p>\n

Via:: Vail Daily Newspaper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March 2015 saw sparks fly with the onset of civil war, as Yemeni Houthis overthrew the nation’s president and noted Saudi Arabian ally, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi \u2014 a move perceived as a threat by the Saudis \u2014 who thusly turned to the Obama administration to engender assistance from stolid if controversial partner, the United States, in the form of logistical, arms, strategic, refueling and other forms of support.
\nThis included support for the highly contentious blockade of Yemen’s ports by the Saudis, under the guise of cutting off a supply line of weapons and funding for the Houthis direct from Iran \u2014 despite Tehran’s insistence no such supply line or connections existed \u2014 during the lead-up to the historic Iran Deal.
\nSuch nuanced involvement was made possible with increasingly open-ended legislation enacted since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, as successive American presidents claim the omnipresent threat of terror and consequent need for tougher national security in order to expand U.S. military covert and overt presence around the globe. But the War on Terror \u2014 putatively fought in defense of the innocent against maleficent forces \u2014 has instead been a multi-pronged disaster for America. Beyond the nebulous war’s estimated price tag …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1301236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 23:32:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}