{"id":2449959,"date":"2019-10-16T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/violence-escalates-thanks-to-executive-ignorance\/"},"modified":"2019-10-17T07:52:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T13:52:54","slug":"violence-escalates-thanks-to-executive-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/violence-escalates-thanks-to-executive-ignorance\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence escalates thanks to executive ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Our current incompetent leadership has far-ranging consequences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">One-hundred years ago the assassination of a European royal started as a small, seemingly limited event but grew rapidly to World War I. That tragic conflict led, just 20 years later, to World Ward II with all its horrors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Today\u2019s world is no different.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The inept, spontaneous, uniformed decision by President Trump to abruptly withdraw a long-standing U.S. military presence has led to almost immediate chaos in Syria. A small, seemingly limited event has already started to expand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Kurds have been forced to ally with our stated enemy \u2014 Assad. Turkey has invaded Syria. Russia and Iran \u2014 current threats to the U.S. and Europe \u2014 back Turkey. ISIS prisoners escape and regroup. Al-Qaida reforms and is joining the chaos. Millions of displaced civilians add to the existing migration crises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Where might it all go?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Surging oil prices, economic decline, unexpected armed conflicts, increased terror attacks \u2026 leading to? Answer: See the above about a century ago!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">We have an ignorant person in the White House. The root word for that term is \u201cignore.\u201d He ignores professional and informed advice, he ignores facts and meaningful information, he ignores history. Instead, he acts whimsically as the moment moves him. Like a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The current situation is not about partisan politics \u2014 it is about competence. The Congress and the public need to act \u2014 now \u2014 as continued incompetence is leading us quickly to dangerous ends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">James DeFrancia<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/violence-escalates-thanks-to-executive-ignorance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our current incompetent leadership has far-ranging consequences. One-hundred years ago the assassination of a European royal started as a small, seemingly limited event but grew rapidly to World War I. That tragic conflict led, just 20 years later, to World Ward II with all its horrors. Today\u2019s world is no different. The inept, spontaneous, uniformed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2449959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 14:10:07","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449981,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449959\/revisions\/2449981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}