{"id":14229,"date":"2013-08-28T10:44:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T14:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14229"},"modified":"2013-08-28T10:48:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T14:48:02","slug":"the-problem-with-red-lines-in-the-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/08\/28\/the-problem-with-red-lines-in-the-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem With Red Lines In The Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama has prove once again that he does not understand the principles of negotiation.\u00a0 This shows up in the trouble he is in because he announced his red line in the Syrian conflict.\u00a0 He announced to the world that if Syria used chemical weapons that would be crossing his red line, after which he would take military action against Syria.<\/p>\n<p>When you make such an announcement to the world, anyone who wants you to attack Syria now knows what has to be done to get you to take action.\u00a0 Who would want you to take action against Syria?\u00a0 Some of the rebels in Syria would certainly want you to take action.\u00a0 Some people in your own government want you to take action.\u00a0 They also know that it must look like the Syrian government did it.<\/p>\n<p>If you must have a red line, you should only tell where that red line is to the people who would not want you to take action.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing red lines is akin to going into a negotiation to sell something at a particular offering price, but announcing up front what is your actual minimum acceptable price.\u00a0 Obama has already proven himself to be a past master of this technique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama has prove once again that he does not understand the principles of negotiation.\u00a0 This shows up in the trouble he is in because he announced his red line in the Syrian conflict.\u00a0 He announced to the world that if Syria used chemical weapons that would be crossing his red line, after which he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14231,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14229\/revisions\/14231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}