{"id":182297,"date":"2015-10-27T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/27\/quote-of-the-day-135\/"},"modified":"2015-10-27T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T23:09:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-135","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/27\/quote-of-the-day-135\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">If you&#8217;re keeping score at home, in Syria, we&#8217;ll be fighting alongside the people against whom we&#8217;ll be fighting in Syria. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. And the friend of my friend is the enemy of the enemy of my friend. And the friend of the devil is a friend of mine. <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">This isn&#8217;t foreign policy. It&#8217;s a Lewis Carroll poem, and it&#8217;s getting to be a longer one<\/span><\/b>. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/news\/a39196\/mission-creep-iraq-syria\/\">Charlie Pierce<\/a> on how the misruling class in DC seems determined to put boots on the ground in Syria.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears that Obama&#8217;s statements in 2003 that he opposed &#8220;<b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Stupid Wars<\/span><\/b>&#8221; is now inoperative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re keeping score at home, in Syria, we&#8217;ll be fighting alongside the people against whom we&#8217;ll be fighting in Syria. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. And the friend of my friend is the enemy of the enemy of my friend. And the friend of the devil is a friend of mine. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[981,969,964,986,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-evil","category-foreign-relations","category-middle-east","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182297"}],"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=182297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}