{"id":49786,"date":"2015-03-09T08:38:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T14:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/09\/at-the-waters-edge.html"},"modified":"2015-05-11T12:41:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T18:41:07","slug":"at-the-waters-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/09\/at-the-waters-edge.html","title":{"rendered":"At the water&#039;s edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Content that they have screwed up US domestic policy, the GOP is now intent on screwing up our foreign policy, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.bloombergview.com\/articles\/2015-03-09\/republicans-warn-iran-and-obama-that-deal-won-t-last'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/xilII42Y1Kr4xxCblXlcypvPU3D9MCtUMQqRiBlYFsAGkKkIXjhy95UpeeC1pvKhGNWVaqSV4-JgWfVfbxqAGWkbqe7ea2lR1WWRK0rp=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.bloombergview.com\/articles\/2015-03-09\/republicans-warn-iran-and-obama-that-deal-won-t-last'>Republicans Warn Iran &#8212; and Obama &#8212; That Deal Won&#8217;t Last<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n47 Republican senators have written an open letter to Iran&#8217;s leaders warning them that any nuclear deal they sign won&rsquo;t last after Obama leaves office.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/PqRn76C1WT9'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content that they have screwed up US domestic policy, the GOP is now intent on screwing up our foreign policy, too. Republicans Warn Iran &#8212; and Obama &#8212; That Deal Won&#8217;t Last 47 Republican senators have written an open letter to Iran&#8217;s leaders warning them that any nuclear deal they sign won&rsquo;t last after Obama &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/09\/at-the-waters-edge.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;At the water&#039;s edge&#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_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":[106,10,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-poor-citizenship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51738,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/the-iran-deal-and-the-limits-of-power.html","url_meta":{"origin":49786,"position":0},"title":"The Iran Deal and the Limits of Power","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 14-Jul-15 11:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"'When critics focus incessantly on the gap between the present deal and a perfect one, what they\u2019re really doing is blaming Obama for the fact that the United States is not omnipotent. 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