{"id":1221,"date":"2004-03-15T19:33:27","date_gmt":"2004-03-16T02:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2004-03-15T19:33:27","modified_gmt":"2004-03-16T02:33:27","slug":"coalition-of-the-willing-my-burro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/03\/15\/coalition-of-the-willing-my-burro\/","title":{"rendered":"Coalition of the Willing My Burro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"002024\"><\/a>Some things I&#8217;m wondering.<\/p>\n<p>Is Spain now part of Rumsfeld&#8217;s rubric of &#8220;Old Europe&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>(&#8220;New Europe&#8221; being those countries that simply had a gap between public approval and the government on the particular issue of the Iraq War.)<\/p>\n<p>Is there a way that we can malign the Spanish in the same way that we maligned the French?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we can refer to them as a bunch of burros&#8230; a reference that can easily be carried over stateside and attach itself with the Donkey of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;know: Spain&#8217;s great contribution to the literary canon: Don Quixote.   Not the &#8220;Clear Eyed Realist&#8221; that we need to win a war against Evil.<\/p>\n<p>(Oh, yeah.  BTW: look over to the sidebar and click on the link &#8220;Coalition of the Willing theme song.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some things I&#8217;m wondering. Is Spain now part of Rumsfeld&#8217;s rubric of &#8220;Old Europe&#8221;? (&#8220;New Europe&#8221; being those countries that simply had a gap between public approval and the government on the particular issue of the Iraq War.) Is there a way that we can malign the Spanish in the same way that we maligned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}