{"id":5616,"date":"2010-12-22T11:01:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T16:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=5616"},"modified":"2010-12-22T11:02:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T16:02:08","slug":"another-look-at-richard-holbrooke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/12\/22\/another-look-at-richard-holbrooke\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Look At Richard Holbrooke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/speaking_ill_of_the_best_and_the_brightest_20101221\/\"><strong>Speaking Ill of \u2018the Best and the Brightest\u2019<\/strong><\/a> by Robert Scheer presents a different view of Holbrooke&#8217;s impact on the world scene.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of &#8220;the best and the brightest&#8221; died last week, and in Richard Holbrooke we had a perfect example of the dark mischief to which David Halberstam referred when he authored that ironic label. Holbrooke\u2019s life marks the propensity of our elite institutions to turn out alpha leaders with simplistic world-ordering ambitions unrestrained by moral conscience or intellectual humility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On of the commenters on the article pointed to the YouTube video <a title=\"YouTube video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DUQBWGo7pef8\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pirates and Emperors &#8211; Schoolhouse Rock<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UQBWGo7pef8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UQBWGo7pef8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article Speaking Ill of \u2018the Best and the Brightest\u2019 by Robert Scheer presents a different view of Holbrooke&#8217;s impact on the world scene. One of &#8220;the best and the brightest&#8221; died last week, and in Richard Holbrooke we had a perfect example of the dark mischief to which David Halberstam referred when he authored [&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-5616","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\/5616","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=5616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5619,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5616\/revisions\/5619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}