{"id":4538,"date":"2009-04-09T07:54:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T12:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4538"},"modified":"2009-04-09T07:54:23","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T12:54:23","slug":"sackcloth-and-ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4538","title":{"rendered":"Sackcloth And Ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama shows himself a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/04082009\/postopinion\/opedcolumnists\/os_amateur_hour_163368.htm\">rank amateur<\/a> in Turkey:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"snap_noshots\">The Europeans were appalled by Turkey&#8217;s neo-Taliban tantrum on-stage at last week&#8217;s <a class=\"topiclink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/topics\/topic.php?t=NATO\">NATO<\/a> summit. The Turks fought to derail the appointment of a great Dane, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, as the new NATO secretary general. Why? Because he didn&#8217;t stone to death the Danish cartoonist who caricatured Mohammed.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings us to the even bigger problem: Obama has no idea what&#8217;s going on in Turkey. By going to Ankara on his knees, he gave his seal of approval to a pungently anti-American Islamist government bent on overturning Mustapha Kemal&#8217;s legacy of the separation of mosque and state.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s ruling Justice and Development Party, the AKP, means headscarves, Korans, censorship and stacked elections. The country&#8217;s alarmed middle class opposes the effort to turn the country into an Islamic state. Obama&#8217;s gushing praise for the AKP&#8217;s bosses left them aghast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"snap_noshots\">Obama&#8217;s embrace of Turkish Prime Minister <a class=\"topiclink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/topics\/topic.php?t=Recep+Tayyip%20Erdogan\">Recep Tayyip Erdogan<\/a> (now orchestrating show trials of his opponents) was one step short of going to Tehran and smooching President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"snap_noshots\">Give him time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"snap_noshots\">Remember &#8211; Obama&#8217;s the &#8220;smart one&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama shows himself a rank amateur in Turkey: The Europeans were appalled by Turkey&#8217;s neo-Taliban tantrum on-stage at last week&#8217;s NATO summit. The Turks fought to derail the appointment of a great Dane, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, as the new NATO secretary general. Why? Because he didn&#8217;t stone to death the Danish cartoonist who caricatured Mohammed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538","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=4538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}