{"id":59,"date":"2014-03-11T15:47:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T15:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benbachrach.com\/wp\/?p=59"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:47:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T15:47:05","slug":"good-advice-from-eric-margolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benbachrach.com\/wp\/good-advice-from-eric-margolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Good advice from Eric Margolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an excerpt from<br \/>\nVLAD THE BAD STEALS A MARCH ON THE WEST<br \/>\nby Eric Margolis<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ericmargolis.com\/2014\/03\/vlad-the-bad-steals-a-march-on-the-west\/\">http:\/\/ericmargolis.com\/2014\/03\/vlad-the-bad-steals-a-march-on-the-west\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US won\u2019t accept that Russia has any legitimate spheres of influence, while Washington\u2019s span the globe. Last week, US Secretary of State John Kerry, who used to be a sensible fellow before becoming corrupted by power, blasted Russia: \u201cyou just don\u2019t invade a country under a phony pretext!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I guess Kerry has never heard of the US invasions of the Dominican Republic, Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Haiti, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Libya. Or can\u2019t remember Vietnam and the Gulf of Tonkin \u201cincident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kerry should cut the hypocrisy and get to work on a diplomatic settlement. Two major nuclear-armed powers cannot \u2013 must not \u2013 be allowed to confront one another.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine could turn out to be the 1914 Bosnia-Herzegovina of our era if we don\u2019t stop primitive breast-beating over a region no one could even find on a map until recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an excerpt from VLAD THE BAD STEALS A MARCH ON THE WEST by Eric Margolis http:\/\/ericmargolis.com\/2014\/03\/vlad-the-bad-steals-a-march-on-the-west\/ The US won\u2019t accept that Russia has any legitimate spheres of influence, while Washington\u2019s span the globe. Last week, US Secretary of State John Kerry, who used to be a sensible fellow before becoming corrupted by power, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/benbachrach.com\/wp\/good-advice-from-eric-margolis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good advice from Eric Margolis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbachrach.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbachrach.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbachrach.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbachrach.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbachrach.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benbachrach.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/benbachrach.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbachrach.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbachrach.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbachrach.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}