{"id":198446,"date":"2007-11-08T00:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/08\/breaking-news-john-negroponte-is-a-moron\/"},"modified":"2007-11-08T00:21:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T05:21:00","slug":"breaking-news-john-negroponte-is-a-moron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/08\/breaking-news-john-negroponte-is-a-moron\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News, John  Negroponte is a Moron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a guy who takes our money, and as opposed to going after terrorists in the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">north<\/span>, has spent it on gold plating his military machine to go after India in the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">south<\/span>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/mochila.php?articleId=10240155&amp;channelId=76&amp;buyerId=talkingpointsmemo_com400732&amp;buid=866\">according to John Negroponte, he is indispensable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani military has spent the past 60 imagining the glory of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">der tag<\/span><sup>*<\/sup>, and Musharraf is very much a part of this dysfunctional and anti-Democratic culture.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the current alternative, Benazir Bhutto, is remarkably corrupt, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">even by the standards of Pakistani politics<\/span><\/span> (Yes, I know, &#8220;corrupt even by the standards of Pakistani politics&#8221;, is hard to wrap one&#8217;s head around).<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">The German Imperial Navy, in the days before World War I, constantly longed for <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:85%;\" >der tag<\/span><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">, the day, when they would confront the British Navy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a guy who takes our money, and as opposed to going after terrorists in the north, has spent it on gold plating his military machine to go after India in the south, but according to John Negroponte, he is indispensable. The Pakistani military has spent the past 60 imagining the glory of der &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,964,1151,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-foreign-relations","category-south-asia","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198446"}],"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=198446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}