{"id":35909,"date":"2013-04-25T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35909"},"modified":"2013-04-21T07:57:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T12:57:23","slug":"neo-neo-neo-neo-colonial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35909","title":{"rendered":"Neo-Neo-Neo-Neo-Colonial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John Kerry, Secretary of State, <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/richardfernandez\/2013\/04\/15\/a-master-class-in-negotiation\/#more-28428\">offers to withdraw United States missile defense batteries from the Far East, if China will agree to restrain North Korea<\/a> from launching nukes at us.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">We\u2019re outsourcing the defense of our nation to China.\u00a0 Well, why not?\u00a0 They\u2019re already our biggest creditor.\u00a0 What could possibly go wrong?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<p>Como Park.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the one hand, that was a common tactic in the colonial era; turn one of the tribes in an area of your interest against the other, thereby neutralizing everyone and keeping order.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, that only worked when you had some power and influence; the Danes could never get the Sikhs to turn against the Hindi to colonize India; the British could.<\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;re becoming more like Denmark, only deeper in debt.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: John Kerry, Secretary of State, offers to withdraw United States missile defense batteries from the Far East, if China will agree to restrain North Korea from launching nukes at us. We\u2019re outsourcing the defense of our nation to China.\u00a0 Well, why not?\u00a0 They\u2019re already our biggest creditor.\u00a0 What could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-and-peace","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35909","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=35909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35918,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35909\/revisions\/35918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}