{"id":5804,"date":"2011-02-05T22:14:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T03:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=5804"},"modified":"2011-02-05T22:14:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T03:14:33","slug":"for-the-us-in-egypt-blowback-is-a-bitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/02\/05\/for-the-us-in-egypt-blowback-is-a-bitch\/","title":{"rendered":"For the US in Egypt, Blowback Is a Bitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article <a title=\"TruthOut article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/for-us-egypt-blowback-is-a-bitch67481\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>For the US in Egypt, Blowback Is a Bitch<\/strong><\/a> by Michael Winship is just another nail in the coffin of the <em>Change (In Foreign Policy) That We Can Believe In<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For good measure, you can read <a title=\"Noam Chomsky article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/the-arab-world-is-fire67410\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Arab World Is on Fire<\/strong><\/a>, a very mild piece by Noam Chomsky standards.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to think that the missteps in foreign policy are coming from Hillary Clinton.\u00a0 Her pronouncements make my skin crawl worse than anything that President Obama says.\u00a0 However, he appointed her, he keeps her in office, and he seems to follow her advice.\u00a0 As Michael Dukakis once so elegantly put it, <q>the fish rots from the head<\/q>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article For the US in Egypt, Blowback Is a Bitch by Michael Winship is just another nail in the coffin of the Change (In Foreign Policy) That We Can Believe In. For good measure, you can read The Arab World Is on Fire, a very mild piece by Noam Chomsky standards. I&#8217;d like to [&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-5804","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\/5804","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=5804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5805,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions\/5805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}