{"id":1117,"date":"2007-08-01T05:01:44","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T10:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2007-08-01T05:01:44","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T10:01:44","slug":"barnett-vs-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1117","title":{"rendered":"Barnett Vs. Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas P.M. Barnett &#8211; one of NARN Volume I&#8217;s best guests ever &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaspmbarnett.com\/weblog\/2007\/07\/two_quick_itoldyousos.html\">engages Barack Obama&#8217;s abdication on genocide<\/a> and its long-term meaning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tell me if this crowd gets back in that they won&#8217;t feel compelled to turn many blind eyes across eight long years. And, if so, are we not headed to the same ex post f&#8211;ktos as watching ex-prez Bill Clinton whine his way through Rwanda, telling everyone in sight he should have done something&#8211;anything?<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to explain to your grandkids why your nation did nothing to counter the Holocaust-size totals in the Gap in the 1990s? Care to go through that again?<\/p>\n<p>Why does Obama play to that base instinct? With Samantha Powers as one of his top advisers?<\/p>\n<p>I sit back at times like this and realize there is no room for me and mine in either party: I don&#8217;t demonize the military or interventions so I can&#8217;t be a Dem, and I don&#8217;t demonize China or want to invade Iran so I can&#8217;t be a Republican.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like all Barnett, the whole thing is an interesting, sometimes infuriating, always fascinating read.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas P.M. Barnett &#8211; one of NARN Volume I&#8217;s best guests ever &#8211; engages Barack Obama&#8217;s abdication on genocide and its long-term meaning: Tell me if this crowd gets back in that they won&#8217;t feel compelled to turn many blind eyes across eight long years. And, if so, are we not headed to the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-democrats","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}