{"id":18874,"date":"2013-08-15T13:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=18874"},"modified":"2013-08-15T13:00:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T17:00:51","slug":"not-a-dime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=18874","title":{"rendered":"Not A Dime"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/politics\/Bad_Choices_All_Around'>I look at the Middle East<\/a> and I see Central America in the 1980's -- an endless series of half-baked and bloody civil wars with the United States clumsily deciding which group of thugs to support -- but with more severe potential consequences and the added accelerant of religious mania. Our instincts back then were always lousy, and our choices back then were almost always bad. I don't see either the instincts or the choices as having improved very much here. The fact is that nobody knows what to do about Egypt -- or Syria, for that matter -- until the people there decide to stop slaughtering each other. If nobody knows nothing, then the safest course may be to do nothing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Damn right. We don't need to be in the business of supporting murderous juntas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I look at the Middle East and I see Central America in the 1980's -- an endless series of half-baked and bloody civil wars with the United States clumsily deciding which group of thugs to support -- but with more severe potential consequences and the added accelerant of religious mania. Our instincts back then were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}