{"id":67539,"date":"2018-08-01T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67539"},"modified":"2018-07-31T06:27:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T11:27:36","slug":"its-kind-of-amazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67539","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Kind Of Amazing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;how the big media is doing its best to spin this story &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/28\/world\/asia\/us-taliban-afghanistan-talks.html\">the Administration talking peace with the Taliban after 17 years of war<\/a> &#8211; as a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>Especially given that when the Administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/trump-taliban-haley-united-nations-afghanistan-negotiations-talks-a8184451.html\">reversed the Obama-era policy of giving the insurgents a &#8220;save the date&#8221; card, and cut off all talks six months ago<\/a>, the same experts were wondering &#8211; as they always seem to &#8211; what was so wrong about diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>(There was actually a very good, even-handed story about this on an NPR broadcast last night.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t seem to find it.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll hold off on the conspiracy theories and assume I&#8217;m missing something, here&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;how the big media is doing its best to spin this story &#8211; the Administration talking peace with the Taliban after 17 years of war &#8211; as a bad thing. Especially given that when the Administration reversed the Obama-era policy of giving the insurgents a &#8220;save the date&#8221; card, and cut off all talks six [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-and-peace","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67540,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67539\/revisions\/67540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}