{"id":21933,"date":"2026-03-27T22:41:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21933"},"modified":"2026-03-27T22:41:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:41:24","slug":"sen-gallego-the-u-s-is-chasing-the-dragon-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21933","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Gallego: The U.S. Is &#8220;Chasing the Dragon&#8221; in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Obama was interested in military force in Syria after Syria crossed Obama&#8217;s redline, but Obama wanted authorization from Congress. Congress didn&#8217;t want to be on the record one way or the other, and told Obama to act if he wanted to act.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then for Libya, some of the Congressmen who said they didn&#8217;t want to be on the record and they wanted Obama to act if he wanted to, complained that Obama didn&#8217;t get authorization for Libya.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not only were Congress people derelict&nbsp;of their duty to discuss and vote on military action, but they dishonestly portrayed their true feelings to the public.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sen. Gallego: The U.S. Is &quot;Chasing the Dragon&quot; in Iran\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I5EYWoIrb_A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama was interested in military force in Syria after Syria crossed Obama&#8217;s redline, but Obama wanted authorization from Congress. Congress didn&#8217;t want to be on the record one way or the other, and told Obama to act if he wanted to act. <\/p>\n<p>Then for Libya, some of the Congressmen who said they didn&#8217;t want to be on the record and they wanted Obama to act if he wanted to, complained that Obama didn&#8217;t get authorization for Libya. <\/p>\n<p>Not only were Congress people derelict of their duty to discuss and vote on military action, but they dishonestly portrayed their true feelings to the public. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I5EYWoIrb_A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,542,429,221,272,355,314,156,2288,556,813,419,170,619,158,2183],"class_list":["post-21933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-congress","tag-constitution","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-libya","tag-obama","tag-presidency","tag-syria","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-war-powers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21934,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21933\/revisions\/21934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}