{"id":38059,"date":"2013-09-02T13:17:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T18:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38059"},"modified":"2013-09-01T15:29:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T20:29:11","slug":"more-of-that-smart-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38059","title":{"rendered":"More Of That Smart Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The democratic and legislative process of our allies &#8211; sovereign nations all&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So when Prime Minister David Cameron was unable to muster the votes in Parliament for support for a strike in Syria \u2014 even one limited to stopping the future use of chemical weapons \u2014 shock could be heard in the voices of senior White House officials who never saw the British rejection coming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Bungled by Cameron<\/strong>,\u201d said one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmbarrassing,\u201d said another. \u201cFor Cameron, and for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now Mr. Obama is left to cope with miscalculations on both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;are there for the mocking by our current pack of ruling fratboys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The democratic and legislative process of our allies &#8211; sovereign nations all&#8230;: So when Prime Minister David Cameron was unable to muster the votes in Parliament for support for a strike in Syria \u2014 even one limited to stopping the future use of chemical weapons \u2014 shock could be heard in the voices of senior [&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-38059","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\/38059","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=38059"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38069,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38059\/revisions\/38069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}