{"id":585,"date":"2005-08-08T12:21:03","date_gmt":"2005-08-08T19:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=585"},"modified":"2005-08-08T12:21:03","modified_gmt":"2005-08-08T19:21:03","slug":"from-last-weeks-parade-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/08\/08\/from-last-weeks-parade-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"From last week’s “Parade Magazine”"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>There was a letter in last Sunday’s “Parade Magazine” newspaper insert. It went like this.<\/p>\n

Q. Are there any politicians in France and Germany who aren\u2019t anti-American?
\n\u2014Gregory N., Chicago, Ill.<\/p>\n

A. Yes. In fact, the next elections in both countries may well lead to the emergence of new, friendlier leaders. In Germany, Angela Merkel, leader of the pro-American Christian Democratic Union, is expected to take over as chancellor. And in France, Nicolas Sarkozy, a staunch ally of America, is expected to replace the consistently anti-American President Jacques Chirac.<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m pondering the question and the answer. It seems to come from a sort of myopia of how other nations’ politicians shoud acceptably behave… which is, to follow lock-stop behind the interests of the American elites. What the heck is “anti-American” about Jacques Chirac and Schroeder? Both of them politically tapped into anti-Iraq War sentiment, largely cynically, to prolong their political careers. Anything less would make them terrible at pandering.<\/p>\n

I recall during the Iraq War, probably right after the statue-falling triumph, someone commenting that “Turkey made a huge mistake by not letting Americans use their land.” This made no sense to me. Beyond anything else, Turkey is as democratic a state as there is in the Muslim world. <\/p>\n

Once again, a myopia as to what a state gains or doesn’t gain from these things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was a letter in last Sunday’s “Parade Magazine” newspaper insert. It went like this. Q. Are there any politicians in France and Germany who aren\u2019t anti-American? \u2014Gregory N., Chicago, Ill. A. Yes. In fact, the next elections in both countries may well lead to the emergence of new, friendlier leaders. In Germany, Angela Merkel, […]<\/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-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","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=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}