This puts Barack Obama\u2019s \u201csmart power\u201d foreign policy to the test. If Saberi\u2019s case gets a lot of attention, the State Department will feel the pressure to get her released. This happened a few times during the Bush administration, which succeeded in all but one case to gain the release of arrested Americans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Of course, Congress is frequently the engine of the “attention” that needs to be paid.\u00a0 What is the position of NoDak’s two Senators, arch-liberal Obama supporters Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan?<\/p>\n
There was a time we could have counted on Norm Coleman to be a voice for justice in these cases.\u00a0 God willing, we will again.<\/p>\n
Where is <\/em>Amy Klobuchar, figuratively (and where is Al Franken, literally)?\u00a0 Do either of our Senators\/would-be Senators have the falafel to smack down the mullahs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As I noted earlier, free-lance journalist, former NPR reporter\/Miss North Dakota\/Fargo North alum Roxana Saberi is being held incommunicado in Iran. Ed at Hot Air notes: This puts Barack Obama\u2019s \u201csmart power\u201d foreign policy to the test. If Saberi\u2019s case gets a lot of attention, the State Department will feel the pressure to get her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21,9],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-4311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-midwest","category-war-on-terror","tag-a-klo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311","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=4311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76195,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions\/76195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}