{"id":47055,"date":"2014-09-11T05:27:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T10:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47055"},"modified":"2014-09-11T06:33:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T11:33:08","slug":"line-up-that-second-peace-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47055","title":{"rendered":"Line Up That Second Peace Prize!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n

Remember when all President Obama planned to do<\/a> was cure the sick, end joblessness, slow the rise of the oceans, heal the planet, end war, secure our nation’s borders and restore our nation’s image abroad?<\/p>\n

That was nothing.<\/p>\n

Now he’s going to<\/a> “eliminate the the schism between Sunni and Shia that has been fueling so much of the violence in Syria, in Iraq.”<\/p>\n

As Powerline asks<\/a>:\u201cWhoa! We are going to ‘eliminate the schism between Sunni and Shia?’ The schism that goes back to the 7th Century? And we are going to \u201celiminate the schism\u201d through diplomacy?\u201d<\/p>\n

No. Not \u201cwe.\u201d President Barack Obama, possibly assisted by Secretary of State John Kerry. After all they have promised to accomplish so far, why would you have any doubt? Nobel Committee, call your office.<\/p>\n

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a side note, in re last night’s speech, a friend of mine texted me in re the President saying ISIS – the “Islamic State in Syria” – “wasn’t Muslim” [1]; apparently their name is…<\/p>\n

“Innocent Separatists Impacted by Sophistry”.<\/p>\n

Naturally.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

[1] No, most Muslims\u00a0aren’t\u00a0<\/em>extremists. \u00a0You don’t see many Indian or Indonesian or Bosnian or Albanian Muslims blowing people up or fighting in the Levant.<\/p>\n

But some most certainly are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Remember when all President Obama planned to do was cure the sick, end joblessness, slow the rise of the oceans, heal the planet, end war, secure our nation’s borders and restore our nation’s image abroad? That was nothing. Now he’s going to “eliminate the the schism between Sunni and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,131,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-war-and-peace","category-war-on-terror","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47055","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=47055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47056,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47055\/revisions\/47056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}