{"id":192698,"date":"2009-03-04T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/04\/obama-starts-dialog-with-medvedev-on-bmd\/"},"modified":"2009-03-04T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T11:01:00","slug":"obama-starts-dialog-with-medvedev-on-bmd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/04\/obama-starts-dialog-with-medvedev-on-bmd\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Starts Dialog With Medvedev on BMD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/03\/washington\/03prexy.html?hp\">dispatched a letter to Dmitri Medvedev suggesting that the installations in the Czech Republic and Poland are not a done deal<\/a>, and that if they can come to a meeting of the minds on Iran, this could be called off.<\/p>\n<p>The installations have always been wrong headed, improperly located, and provocative,<sup>*<\/sup> so this is a bit of good news.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">I&#8217;ve always said that the provocative bit was a feature, not a bug.  A bellicose and militaristic Russia benefits the &#8216;Phants and their defense contractor friends.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama dispatched a letter to Dmitri Medvedev suggesting that the installations in the Czech Republic and Poland are not a done deal, and that if they can come to a meeting of the minds on Iran, this could be called off. The installations have always been wrong headed, improperly located, and provocative,* so this &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1096,1033],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-missile-defense","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192698"}],"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=192698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}