{"id":1481,"date":"2009-03-03T09:46:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T13:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2009-03-03T09:46:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T13:46:31","slug":"diplomacy-can-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2009\/03\/03\/diplomacy-can-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Diplomacy Can Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember back in the election of Bush vs. Kerry, how the Bush administration said that they could not imagine how Kerry&#8217;s suggested use of diplomacy could possibly work?<\/p>\n<p>Follow <a title=\"Diplomacy Story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/03\/washington\/03prexy.html?_r=2\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to a story in the New York Times about how the Obama administration is trying to use diplomacy to repair our relation with Russia and solve the threat of Iranian nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the Bush\/Kerry contest, I was upset at John Kerry for failing to point out that Bush&#8217;s ridicule was not proof that diplomacy wouldn&#8217;t work.\u00a0 Instead, it was proof of Bush&#8217;s lack of imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember back in the election of Bush vs. Kerry, how the Bush administration said that they could not imagine how Kerry&#8217;s suggested use of diplomacy could possibly work? Follow this link to a story in the New York Times about how the Obama administration is trying to use diplomacy to repair our relation with Russia [&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-1481","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\/1481","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=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}