{"id":70724,"date":"2017-04-08T06:48:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T10:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70724"},"modified":"2017-04-08T06:56:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T10:56:01","slug":"delusional-lindsey-graham-proposes-another-war-with-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70724","title":{"rendered":"Neocon Lindsey Graham Hawks Another Mideast War With Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u2018Did You Not Think Through What the Cost Might Be?\u2019: Tucker Carlson, Lindsey Graham Face Off on Syria<\/h2>\n<p><!--more-->by Josh Feldman<br \/>\nMEDIAite<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6q44qea3zmc<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tucker Carlson<\/strong> spoke with Senator <strong>Lindsey Graham<\/strong> tonight and confronted him about his proposal to send 7000 troops into Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Graham has been very complimentary of <strong>President Trump<\/strong> taking action, telling Carlson tonight he\u2019s actually \u201cproud\u201d of the president for taking action where <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong> would not.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson expressed heavy skepticism about what Graham was proposing, asking him if he\u2019s calling for a \u201cwhole new war\u201d and whether the U.S. should be getting into that fight in the first place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"qualified qualified-1\">He brought up Graham\u2019s proposal and asked about the cost. Graham didn\u2019t have a number ready, and Carlson asked, \u201cDid you not think through what the cost might be?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graham responded that it\u2019s \u201cminimal compared to the threats we face\u201d and that \u201cour national security interest can\u2019t be monetized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the full interview above, via Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>[<em>image via screengrab<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/did-you-not-think-through-what-the-cost-might-be-tucker-carlson-lindsey-graham-face-off-on-syria\/\">http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/did-you-not-think-through-what-the-cost-might-be-tucker-carlson-lindsey-graham-face-off-on-syria\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Did You Not Think Through What the Cost Might Be?\u2019: Tucker Carlson, Lindsey Graham Face Off on Syria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}