{"id":38738,"date":"2013-09-09T14:01:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T20:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/09\/abdicating-as-the-worlds-policeman.html"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:01:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T20:01:18","slug":"abdicating-as-the-worlds-policeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/09\/abdicating-as-the-worlds-policeman.html","title":{"rendered":"Abdicating as the world&#39;s policeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">The problem is, I&#39;m not convinced that &quot;the US shouldn&#39;t pay attention to stuff going outside its borders&quot; is any more sound a basis for policy and lasting peace than &quot;the US should meddle in everyone&#39;s affairs.&quot; \u00a0<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/JJ4kxtHjbv-cbsXS2tHC-VSYMObyIu5ZNOX44JOPKph8HkkhWmPTVPts5lnlR0JkRSPXpulK_BLApfPWsRz6-tFigWpWR1U9Mqi-_cLRlRci2rZCt1V-tvvRJfMHpSci45mfdwdJDXBE1ljaJ1pwD6LRr08Dxw=w120-h120' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/09\/08\/americans-are-no-longer-interested-in-policing-the-world-mr-obama\/'>Americans are no longer interested in policing the world, Mr. Obama | The Raw Story<\/a><br \/>\n                                                What is perhaps most surprising about this is that the Obama administration is seeking authorisation for a rather limited use of force. It is loudly proclaiming that there will be no US boots on the ground, no effort at regime change, no direct engagement in the Syrian civil war \u2013 just a few &#8230;\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Luc45zEYhnu' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem is, I&#39;m not convinced that &quot;the US shouldn&#39;t pay attention to stuff going outside its borders&quot; is any more sound a basis for policy and lasting peace than &quot;the US should meddle in everyone&#39;s affairs.&quot; \u00a0 Americans are no longer interested in policing the world, Mr. Obama | The Raw Story What is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/09\/abdicating-as-the-worlds-policeman.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Abdicating as the world&#39;s policeman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}