{"id":19942,"date":"2015-03-21T10:33:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T14:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19942"},"modified":"2015-03-21T10:33:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T14:33:51","slug":"tom-friedman-funding-isil-israeliran-derangement-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/03\/21\/tom-friedman-funding-isil-israeliran-derangement-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Friedman &#038; funding ISIL: Israel\/Iran Derangement Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another interesting article from Juan Cole, <a title=\"Juan Cole article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2015\/03\/friedman-israeliran-derangement.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Friedman &amp; funding ISIL: Israel\/Iran Derangement Syndrome<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;If the US has to play whackamole with everyone in the Middle East who objects to the sordid goings-on in Israel\/Palestine, we\u2019ll eventually be bankrupt and without regional allies, and the region itself will collapse and present more severe security threats of the Daesh sort.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, a de facto US rapprochement with Iran to squelch the Daesh\/ ISIL threat before it metastasizes further (see: Tunisia) is clearly in the interest of the United States and its people, including Jewish Americans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cole presents some interesting theories about the conflict in the middle-east that may be worth considering.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t have the expertise to say exactly how much of his theory is historically accurate.\u00a0 Probably the reason I first looked at this article was the possible attack on Tom Friedman, a famed reporter whose 15 minutes of fame was up a long time ago.\u00a0 Friedman still gets undeserved respect in some circles., but fortunately Juan Cole is not afraid of him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another interesting article from Juan Cole, Tom Friedman &amp; funding ISIL: Israel\/Iran Derangement Syndrome. &#8230;If the US has to play whackamole with everyone in the Middle East who objects to the sordid goings-on in Israel\/Palestine, we\u2019ll eventually be bankrupt and without regional allies, and the region itself will collapse and present more severe [&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-19942","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\/19942","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=19942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19943,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19942\/revisions\/19943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}