{"id":417071,"date":"2010-03-11T14:29:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T19:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79034"},"modified":"2010-03-11T14:29:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T19:29:44","slug":"did-kucinich-set-back-anti-afghanistan-war-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/417071","title":{"rendered":"Did Kucinich Set Back Anti-Afghanistan War Cause?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) went forward with a resolution calling for an end to the Afghanistan war yesterday. Predictably, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/11\/world\/asia\/11cong.html?scp=3&amp;sq=kucinich&amp;st=Search\">it earned massive and bipartisan rebuke<\/a>, moving Congress decidedly behind President Obama&#8217;s Afghanistan strategy. Tom Hayden <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20100322\/hayden2\">observes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Strong Kucinich supporters will feel vindicated that their hero took a lonely stand and forced the House to a moment of choice. Critics will note that a dubious war has been legitimized, and that it will be more complicated for those who voted &#8220;aye&#8221; to reverse course in the months ahead.<span id=\"more-79034\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So if you oppose the Afghanistan war, is it supposed to comfort you that Kucinich &#8220;took a lonely stand&#8221; that made your cause more difficult to achieve?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) went forward with a resolution calling for an end to the Afghanistan war yesterday. Predictably, it earned massive and bipartisan rebuke, moving Congress decidedly behind President Obama&#8217;s Afghanistan strategy. Tom Hayden observes: Strong Kucinich supporters will feel vindicated that their hero took a lonely stand and forced the House to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}