{"id":1421,"date":"2005-09-18T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-18T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2005-09-18T16:52:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-18T16:52:00","slug":"1421","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1421","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH[ <span style=\"color:#cc0000;\">Updated<\/span>]<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Bad news for Iran&#8217;s mullahs.<\/p>\n<p>German voters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/2005\/09\/18\/D8CMP4EO0.html\">threw out their anti-American, leftist chancellor<\/a>. Schroeder was a more adamant opponent of U.S. foreign policy in a philosophical sense than Chirac ever was. With Sarkozy rising in France, prospects for closer future alignment between American and European positions on major security issues look a bit rosier.<\/p>\n<p>Now would be a good time to try and cut a deal with Putin regarding orchestrated pressure on Iran over its nuclear program to offer Teheran a deal in the near future that they can&#8217;t refuse &#8211; a generous grand bargain that will fully integrate Iran into the world economy as a normal state in return for dropping terror and nuclear proliferation activities.<\/p>\n<p>Or else.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#cc0000;\">UPDATE:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I may <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/WORLD\/europe\/09\/18\/germany.election\/index.html\">have spoken too soon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH[ Updated] Bad news for Iran&#8217;s mullahs. German voters threw out their anti-American, leftist chancellor. Schroeder was a more adamant opponent of U.S. foreign policy in a philosophical sense than Chirac ever was. With Sarkozy rising in France, prospects for closer future alignment between American and European positions on major security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}