{"id":189187,"date":"2010-05-08T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T02:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/08\/ok-now-ive-seen-everything\/"},"modified":"2010-05-08T21:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T02:54:00","slug":"ok-now-ive-seen-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/08\/ok-now-ive-seen-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, Now I&#8217;ve Seen Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 390px; float: right; text-align: center;\">Click for full size<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img249.imageshack.us\/img249\/8952\/07redsquareca1articlela.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img249.imageshack.us\/img249\/8952\/07redsquareca1articlela.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" width=\"390\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The US 170th Infantry Brigade rehearsing for its march at the <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Victory Day parade in Red Square<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Active duty units of the US, British, French and Polish military will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/07\/world\/europe\/07redsquare.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">marching in Red Square tomorrow in the Victory Day parade<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Never before in history have active-duty American troops been invited to  march in the Victory Day parade, according to the United States  military. The occasion is the 65th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi  Germany in World War II, a date that carries an almost sacred meaning in  Russia. Russian leaders have taken pains to explain that the Americans \u2014  along with contingents from Britain, France and Poland \u2014 were invited  as representatives of the \u201canti-Hitler  coalition.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would have been inconceivable that the Russians would have invited American troops, and it would have been inconceivable that the Pentagon would have accepted, just a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Rumsfeld and Cheney were trying to recreate the threatening &#8220;Russian Bear&#8221; for political advantage, and the entire foreign policy of the Bush administration was about unilateralism and boneheaded hostility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for full size The US 170th Infantry Brigade rehearsing for its march at the Victory Day parade in Red Square Active duty units of the US, British, French and Polish military will be marching in Red Square tomorrow in the Victory Day parade: Never before in history have active-duty American troops been invited to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189187"}],"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=189187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}