{"id":2164,"date":"2003-02-11T15:03:16","date_gmt":"2003-02-11T22:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/02\/standing-with-saddam\/"},"modified":"2003-02-11T15:03:16","modified_gmt":"2003-02-11T22:03:16","slug":"standing-with-saddam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/11\/standing-with-saddam\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing With Saddam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe Washington Post has a surprisingly harsh editorial today, lambasting France and Germany for <a title=\"Standing With Saddam (washingtonpost.com)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A54434-2003Feb10.html\">Standing With Saddam<\/a> and weakening NATO and the UN:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>FRANCE AND GERMANY have finally responded to Iraq&#8217;s flagrant violation of United Nations disarmament orders by mounting an offensive. Yet the target of their campaign is not Saddam Hussein but the United States &#8212; and the proximate casualties look to be not the power structures of a rogue dictator but the international institutions that have anchored European and global security.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The behavior of these two states is so extreme that it&#8217;s prompted Greece to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacedaily.com\/2003\/030211151357.mza1j4xx.html\">advocate arming<\/a> its long-time nemesis, Turkey. <\/p>\n<p>Time is clearly running out for France, Germany, and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/news\/752664.asp\">Eric Alterman<\/a>, whose knickers are abunch, reflexively.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has a surprisingly harsh editorial today, lambasting France and Germany for Standing With Saddam and weakening NATO and the UN: FRANCE AND GERMANY have finally responded to Iraq&#8217;s flagrant violation of United Nations disarmament orders by mounting an offensive. Yet the target of their campaign is not Saddam Hussein but the United &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/11\/standing-with-saddam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Standing With Saddam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-yU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}