{"id":5563,"date":"2024-01-16T13:01:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T19:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=5563"},"modified":"2024-01-22T23:56:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T05:56:26","slug":"5563","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/01\/16\/5563\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. hit the anti-ship ballistic missiles before they were launched.\u00a0 Good move.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9h4wcIz3W10\">\u201cUS launches additional strikes against Houthis in Yemen,\u201d<\/a> CNN, 1-16-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/16\/world\/middleeast\/iraq-us-europe-iran-attack-kurdistan.html\">\u201cDeadly Iranian Strikes in Iraq and Pakistan Inflame Regional Tensions,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 1-16-24.\u00a0\u00a0Miscalculation by Iran?\u00a0 The killings in Erbil and in Pakistan against truly innocent persons, combined with the attacks the Regime ordered the Houthis to make against Red Sea international shipping, appear irrational.\u00a0 But terrorism doesn\u2019t always make sense\u2014that\u2019s why they aren\u2019t a leader state or even in the community of respected international actors.\u00a0 The NYT says, \u201cIran says its missile strikes were aimed at militant groups behind attacks on its territory, but Pakistan and Iraq rejected that explanation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-strikes-jihadist-group-in-pakistan-as-middle-east-conflicts-spread-29640f00\">\u201cIran Strikes Jihadist Group in Pakistan as Middle East Conflicts Spread,\u201d<\/a> NYT, 1-16-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/opinion\/article-782309\">\u201cHezbollah &#8211; a pawn in Iran&#8217;s aim to obliterate Israel \u2013 opinion,\u201d<\/a> Jerusalem Post, 1-16-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/iraq-recalls-envoy-to-iran-after-irgc-claims-to-fire-missiles-at-mossad-site-in-erbil\">\u201cIraq recalls envoy to Iran after IRGC claims to fire missiles at Mossad site in Erbil,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, 1-16-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. hit the anti-ship ballistic missiles before they were launched.\u00a0 Good move.\u00a0 \u201cUS launches additional strikes against Houthis in Yemen,\u201d CNN, 1-16-24. \u201cDeadly Iranian Strikes in Iraq and Pakistan Inflame Regional Tensions,\u201d NYT, 1-16-24.\u00a0\u00a0Miscalculation by Iran?\u00a0 The killings in Erbil and in Pakistan against truly innocent persons, combined with the attacks the Regime ordered &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2024\/01\/16\/5563\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5590,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions\/5590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}