{"id":14459,"date":"2013-09-12T09:42:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T13:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14459"},"modified":"2013-09-12T09:42:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T13:42:13","slug":"a-plea-for-caution-from-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/09\/12\/a-plea-for-caution-from-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"A Plea for Caution From Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The New York Times<\/em> has the <strong><a title=\"Vladimir Putin OpEd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/12\/opinion\/putin-plea-for-caution-from-russia-on-syria.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">OpEd A Plea for Caution From Russia: What Putin Has to Say to Americans About Syria<\/a><\/strong> by Vladimir V. Putin.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If we can avoid force against Syria, this will improve the atmosphere in international affairs and strengthen mutual trust. It will be our shared success and open the door to cooperation on other critical issues.<\/p>\n<p>My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this. I carefully studied his address to the nation on Tuesday. And I would rather disagree with a case he made on American exceptionalism, stating that the United States\u2019 policy is \u201cwhat makes America different. It\u2019s what makes us exceptional.\u201d It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord\u2019s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is ironic when I compare Putin&#8217;s remarks with my own thinking.\u00a0 Compare what he said above with what I posted on this blog yesterday, <a title=\"Previous Post\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/09\/11\/give-peace-a-chance\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Give Peace A Chance<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d better watch myself before I start forming a too positive opinion of Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has the OpEd A Plea for Caution From Russia: What Putin Has to Say to Americans About Syria by Vladimir V. Putin. If we can avoid force against Syria, this will improve the atmosphere in international affairs and strengthen mutual trust. It will be our shared success and open the door [&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":["post-14459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14459","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=14459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14460,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14459\/revisions\/14460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}