{"id":30183,"date":"2011-06-23T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=30183"},"modified":"2011-06-23T12:00:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T18:00:25","slug":"pearce-criticizes-afghanistan-troop-drawdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/06\/pearce-criticizes-afghanistan-troop-drawdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearce criticizes Afghanistan troop drawdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_29649\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29649 \" title=\"Pearce, Steve\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Pearce-Steve.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The only Republican member of New Mexico\u2019s congressional delegation says President Barack Obama\u2019s decision to begin bringing U.S. soldiers home from Afghanistan is a political move that won\u2019t help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president\u2019s action is a political one that will not benefit our troops in the field or Americans at home,\u201d U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/pearce.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Pearce<\/a> said. \u201cChairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Mike Mullen said the president\u2019s plans are riskier and more aggressive than he originally preferred, and both Defense Secretary Gates and General Petraeus have favored a slow drawdown, keeping our forces as strong as possible to secure our progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery American wants to see our military men and women return home to their families as soon as possible,\u201d Pearce said. \u201cBut the management of a war is something best left to the generals, not politicians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pearce said if Obama truly believed that it\u2019s time to \u201cfocus on nation building here at home,\u201d then he would end U.S. involvement in Libya, \u201cwhere he continues to wage an unconstitutional war.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only Republican member of New Mexico\u2019s congressional delegation says President Barack Obama\u2019s decision to begin bringing U.S. soldiers home from Afghanistan is a political move that won\u2019t help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[144,171,116],"class_list":["post-30183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-afghanistan","tag-military","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}