{"id":6100,"date":"2009-11-09T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6100"},"modified":"2009-11-08T21:51:30","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T02:51:30","slug":"controvertible-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6100","title":{"rendered":"Controvertible Counsel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Permanent Link: Gorbachev gives Obama advice on Afghanistan\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2009\/11\/08\/gorbachev-gives-obama-advice-on-afghanistan\/\">Gorbachev gives Obama advice on Afghanistan<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI think that what\u2019s needed is not additional forces,\u201d the former Soviet leader  said through a translator, \u201cthis is something that we discussed, too, years ago  but we decided not to do it. And I think our experience deserves attention.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe that&#8217;s why a month has lapsed while Barack Obama dithers over Afghanistan&#8230;he&#8217;s getting advice from anyone and everyone.<\/p>\n<p>While you&#8217;re at it, Sir, why don&#8217;t you seek counsel from Jimmy Carter on hostage negotiation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Alec Baldwin on parenting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Britney Spears on driving a car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Oprah Winfrey on losing weight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Sean Penn on poise under pressure.<\/p>\n<p>This is fun. You try it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gorbachev gives Obama advice on Afghanistan \u201cI think that what\u2019s needed is not additional forces,\u201d the former Soviet leader said through a translator, \u201cthis is something that we discussed, too, years ago but we decided not to do it. And I think our experience deserves attention.\u201d Maybe that&#8217;s why a month has lapsed while Barack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-war-on-terror","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6100"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6113,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100\/revisions\/6113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}