{"id":2016,"date":"2006-07-17T15:56:07","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T19:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/07\/cut_and_run\/"},"modified":"2006-07-17T15:56:07","modified_gmt":"2006-07-17T19:56:07","slug":"cut_and_run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/07\/cut_and_run\/","title":{"rendered":"Cut And Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uslatest\/story\/0,,-5957008,00.html\">U.S. to Aid Americans&#8217; Lebanon Evacuation<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\nTo be fair, if I was stuck in a conflict zone, I&#8217;d be thinking about getting out too.  My point is that mindless slogans can cut both ways.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmcafe.com\/blog\/coffeehouse\/2006\/jul\/15\/whither_america\">Josh Marshall writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thinking back through the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s &#8212; with key crises in each decade &#8212; I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any example where an American administration has so thoroughly marginalized itself or shown such impotence and irrelevance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In watching Mr. Bush yucking it up with pig jokes on the world stage, I don&#8217;t know how you can conclude anything other than that we&#8217;re not seeing leadership from the world&#8217;s supposed leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/07\/cut_and_run\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Cut And Run\"><p>&#8220;U.S. to Aid Americans&#8217; Lebanon Evacuation&#8221; To be fair, if I was stuck in a conflict zone, I&#8217;d be thinking about getting out too. My point is that mindless slogans can cut both ways. Josh Marshall writes: Thinking back through the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s &#8212; with key crises in each decade &#8212; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}