{"id":1531,"date":"2007-10-31T04:40:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T09:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2007-11-18T10:32:24","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T15:32:24","slug":"truth-v-the-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1531","title":{"rendered":"Talk Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff at TvM <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthvmachine.com\/\">Ttalks about a discussion with his seven-year old<\/a> on foreign policy, noting that his son&#8217;s philosophy&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;these days is focused on the question, \u201cWhich is more powerful, the dark side of the force or the light side?\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>And I think that makes him a more nuanced thinker than Barack Obama. From the foreign policy journal, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/articles\/1572991\/20071029\/id_0.jhtml\"><font color=\"#850101\">MTV<\/font><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Obama also reiterated that he would be willing to talk to such rogue nations as Iran and use diplomacy \u2014 not unilateral military action \u2014 to try to repair the image of the United States on the world stage. He promised to close the controversial terror detainee jail at Guantanamo Bay, restore the right of habeas corpus to detainees and to bring back all combat troops from Iraq within 16 months of his arrival in the Oval Office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obama has got it in his head that his path to the nomination means embracing defeatism, surrenderism, and America is to blameism.<\/p>\n<p>And keep in mind, Obama is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. One wonders if he\u2019s absorbed anything sitting on that committee.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has been committing acts of war against the US since 1979. Our problem is not that we haven\u2019t talked talked to Iran, or engaged in diplomacy. Our problem is that we\u2019ve talked too much, and engaged in diplunacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to my wayback machine, picturing Premier Bzurek Obamski, leader of Poland, expressing growing &#8220;concern&#8221; with German aggression &#8211; on September 1, 19<em>6<\/em>9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff at TvM Ttalks about a discussion with his seven-year old on foreign policy, noting that his son&#8217;s philosophy&#8230;: &#8230;these days is focused on the question, \u201cWhich is more powerful, the dark side of the force or the light side?\u201d. And I think that makes him a more nuanced thinker than Barack Obama. From the [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","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=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}