{"id":151,"date":"2009-11-01T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/2009\/11\/01\/151\/"},"modified":"2010-05-02T21:14:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T02:14:19","slug":"151","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"International irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back to the <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">international scene<\/span> for a moment.  Regarding three middle-eastern countries, I have two notes of interest:<\/p>\n<p>1) A note of irony: The guy we were rooting for in Iran just a few months ago &#8212; Hossein Moussavi &#8212; is <a href=\" http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,1933498,00.html?xid=rss-world\" target=\"_blank\">speaking out against any uranium deal<\/a> with Obama.  &#8220;If the promises given [to the West] are realized, then the hard work of thousands of scientists would be ruined&#8221; according to Mr. Moussavi.<\/p>\n<p>So, last summer&#8217;s &#8220;Green Revolution&#8221; in Iran is still nuclear.  <!--more-->Why then did so many Americans get so fired up about it; why were they so critical of President Obama for not doing more for Moussavi?  The bomb is not going to be voted down in Iran, even with fair elections.<\/p>\n<p>2.) And as to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan &#8212; NY Times columnist <a href=\" http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/25\/opinion\/25friedman.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Freidman now says<\/a> that we should concentrate on Iraq and cut bait in Afghanistan. Wait, I&#8217;m confused; it wasn&#8217;t that long ago when he and most other Democrats, led by Barack Obama, had it just the other way around.  <\/p>\n<p>I guess that all you can say about these developments is, &#8220;things change&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to the international scene for a moment. Regarding three middle-eastern countries, I have two notes of interest: 1) A note of irony: The guy we were rooting for in Iran just a few months ago &#8212; Hossein Moussavi &#8212; is speaking out against any uranium deal with Obama. &#8220;If the promises given [to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}