{"id":196828,"date":"2008-03-20T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/20\/bush-authorizes-the-furnishing-of-defense-articles-and-defense-services-to-kosovo\/"},"modified":"2008-03-20T23:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T04:03:00","slug":"bush-authorizes-the-furnishing-of-defense-articles-and-defense-services-to-kosovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/20\/bush-authorizes-the-furnishing-of-defense-articles-and-defense-services-to-kosovo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Authorizes &#8220;the Furnishing of Defense Articles and Defense Services&#8221; to Kosovo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While not an actual authorization of weapons sales, it does <a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jTYBWxbnwoby8z38DtzDO_W31Bww\">give official approval to more detailed negotiations on this matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I support the recognition of Kosovo.  The nation of Serbia forfeited any right to the territory when it engage in Genocide, and the ability to support Kosavar security forces is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, the fact that I am agreeing with a foreign policy initiative of Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> does make me feel unsettled.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, I am compelled to make the repeat the <a href=\"http:\/\/d-squareddigest.blogspot.com\/2003_02_23_d-squareddigest_archive.html#89796111\">wisest thing that I&#8217;ve read this century<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>But it does inspire in me the desire for a competition; can anyone, particularly the rather more Bush-friendly recent arrivals to the board, give me one single example of something with the following three characteristics:<\/p>\n<p>1. It is a policy initiative of the current Bush administration<br \/>2. It was significant enough in scale that I&#8217;d have heard of it (at a pinch, that I should have heard of it)<br \/>3. It wasn&#8217;t in some important way completely f#$@ed up during the execution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously. I&#8217;ve yet to see anything wiser yet, and I&#8217;m using the loose definition of the 21st century which includes the year 2000.<\/p>\n<p>So the obvious question is, how will they f#$@ it up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While not an actual authorization of weapons sales, it does give official approval to more detailed negotiations on this matter. I support the recognition of Kosovo. The nation of Serbia forfeited any right to the territory when it engage in Genocide, and the ability to support Kosavar security forces is a good thing. That being &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,964],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-foreign-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196828"}],"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=196828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}