{"id":178459,"date":"2018-11-21T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/21\/this-is-a-change-in-rhetoric-not-a-change-in-policy\/"},"modified":"2018-11-21T19:26:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T00:26:00","slug":"this-is-a-change-in-rhetoric-not-a-change-in-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/21\/this-is-a-change-in-rhetoric-not-a-change-in-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"This is a Change in Rhetoric, not a Change in Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have likely heard about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/20\/world\/middleeast\/trump-saudi-khashoggi.html\">Donald Trump&#8217;s embrace of the House in response to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that it is a contemptible statement, but that it does not constitute a change in policy.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has had its tongue so far up the Saudi ass that it&#8217;s been tasting tonsils for over 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Barack Obama is the one who initially gave the full throated support of the Saudi brutal war on Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>The Bush (II) administration aggressively suppressed connections between the House of Saud and the 911 hijackers.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton bent over backwards to avoid facing the fact that, as became clear after things like the Khobar Towers bombing, that the Saudi state security apparatus was hopelessly compromised.<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s Bush (I) who considered Prince Bandar bin Sultan to almost be a member of his family.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s behavior is completely within the mainstream of the past 35+ years of American foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>The only difference is that Trump is too stupid, and too impulsive, not to lie about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have likely heard about Donald Trump&#8217;s embrace of the House in response to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. I believe that it is a contemptible statement, but that it does not constitute a change in policy. The White House has had its tongue so far up the Saudi ass that it&#8217;s been tasting tonsils &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,435,573,364,394,509,454],"class_list":["post-178459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-crimes","tag-donald-trump","tag-evil","tag-foreign-relations","tag-house-of-saud","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}