{"id":31033,"date":"2011-03-16T18:41:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T02:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=31033"},"modified":"2011-03-16T19:05:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T03:05:54","slug":"should-america-intervene-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=31033","title":{"rendered":"Should America Intervene In Libya?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t want any troops in Libya or anything like that. If the French president and the Arab League wants something done and the United States which has the Statue of Liberty doesn&#8217;t do anything after announcing March 3 that Khaddafy should go, we&#8217;re not going to be taken seriously as a force.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president doesn&#8217;t want to be taken seriously as a force. He wants the UN to be taken seriously. Hillary Clinton announced that we won&#8217;t do anything without international authorization. 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