{"id":129493,"date":"2016-01-15T15:35:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T22:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/15\/amazing-what-happens-when-you-dont-continuously-threaten-to-bomb-someone.html"},"modified":"2016-02-11T22:33:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T05:33:28","slug":"amazing-what-happens-when-you-dont-continuously-threaten-to-bomb-someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/15\/amazing-what-happens-when-you-dont-continuously-threaten-to-bomb-someone.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazing what happens when you don&#039;t continuously threaten to bomb someone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not to say we&#39;re bestest buddies with Iran, to be perfectly honest, nor that the Iranian government didn&#39;t feel they had something to gain in how this was resolved &#8212; but it&#39;s pretty impressive that what started as <i>A Huge Diplomatic Issue That Demands Immediate Action, By Gum!<\/i> turned into something very different. <\/p>\n<p>The key seems to be an American president finding ways to talk about Iran without having the word &quot;bomb&quot; or &quot;destroy&quot; in the same sentence. Seems pretty straightforward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/reverbpress.com\/world\/iran-detention-of-us-sailors-means-more-than-you-think\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/n5LlEpG2uaxWrS11oA32STXoPwH_RyMe69GqpKdDbqbzCXX88iDNmTPBxkZgyFeXwdD7QT6tEs2koskjrwzh2poyR4faz3JRbilEPruBeGWQsGTordO8aFoOcIVT=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/reverbpress.com\/world\/iran-detention-of-us-sailors-means-more-than-you-think\/'>President Obama&#8217;s Diplomacy Broke Iran&#8217;s Hostage Taking Habit<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIran recently released 10 American sailors, after holding them for mere hours. In 2007, Iran held British sailors for 13 days. What has changed?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/QDxqN7wouP4'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not to say we&#39;re bestest buddies with Iran, to be perfectly honest, nor that the Iranian government didn&#39;t feel they had something to gain in how this was resolved &#8212; but it&#39;s pretty impressive that what started as A Huge Diplomatic Issue That Demands Immediate Action, By Gum! turned into something very different. The key &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/15\/amazing-what-happens-when-you-dont-continuously-threaten-to-bomb-someone.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amazing what happens when you don&#039;t continuously threaten to bomb someone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133855,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/15\/on-the-iran-nuclear-deal.html","url_meta":{"origin":129493,"position":0},"title":"On the Iran Nuclear Deal","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 15-Jul-17 2:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There are a variety of people who still earn a lot of money and\/or air time basically proposing that the US can simply wish something in foreign policy and it will happen, through dint of Moral Authority and Economic Dominance and (of course) Military Might. 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