{"id":14505,"date":"2015-01-28T18:30:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T01:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14505"},"modified":"2015-01-28T18:30:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T01:30:48","slug":"fight-like-apes-thomas-friedman-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2015\/01\/28\/fight-like-apes-thomas-friedman-says\/","title":{"rendered":"fight like apes, Thomas Friedman says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/28\/opinion\/thomas-friedman-czar-putins-next-moves.html?_r=0\">Thomas Friedman wants you to care about the Ukraine.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Ukraine matters \u00e2\u20ac\u201d more than the war in Iraq against the Islamic State, a.k.a., ISIS. It is still not clear that most of our allies in the war against ISIS share our values. That conflict has a big tribal and sectarian element. It is unmistakably clear, though, that Ukraine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reformers in its newly elected government and Parliament \u00e2\u20ac\u201d who are struggling to get free of Russia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s orbit and become part of the European Union\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s market and democratic community \u00e2\u20ac\u201d do share our values.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting gambit.\u00c2\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t take too much to see some ugliness within the erstwhile Ukrainian opposition, such that the American isolationist impulse of viewing this as &#8220;black hats against black hats&#8221;, even if you have to slide with Ukrainian territorial integrity here.\u00c2\u00a0 But here Thomas Friedman insists that the new government is good, better than the old government.<br \/>\nIt appears to be more&#8230; hm&#8230; Thomas Friedman-esque?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Friedman wants you to care about the Ukraine. Ukraine matters \u00e2\u20ac\u201d more than the war in Iraq against the Islamic State, a.k.a., ISIS. It is still not clear that most of our allies in the war against ISIS share our values. That conflict has a big tribal and sectarian element. It is unmistakably clear, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14505","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=14505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14507,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14505\/revisions\/14507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}