{"id":2654,"date":"2008-03-26T22:37:15","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T22:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2008-03-26T22:37:15","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T22:37:15","slug":"mccain-needs-some-new-foreign-policy-advisers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2654","title":{"rendered":"McCain needs some new Foreign Policy Advisers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-mccain27mar27,1,571707.story?track=rss\">Kicking Russia out of the G-8 <\/a>is simply, spectacularly, dumb. What genius gave him that advice? \u00a0A club of market democracies is great. Form one.\u00a0 But this crackbrained\u00a0nostalgia for the Evil Empire though, is the yearning of old men\u00a0misremembering what they consider to have been\u00a0the moral simplicities of their youth.<\/p>\n<p>McCain needs to take a good, hard, look at his foreign policy team &#8211; the real team of day to day insiders &#8211;\u00a0 while the Obama-Clinton slugfest allows him to fine-tune matters\u00a0under the media\u00a0radar. I have a hard time imagining that <strong>George Shultz<\/strong> and <strong>Henry Kissinger<\/strong> suggested that we kick the Russians in the nuts as an opening move of a McCain administration.<\/p>\n<p>One war at a time John. One war at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kicking Russia out of the G-8 is simply, spectacularly, dumb. What genius gave him that advice? \u00a0A club of market democracies is great. Form one.\u00a0 But this crackbrained\u00a0nostalgia for the Evil Empire though, is the yearning of old men\u00a0misremembering what they consider to have been\u00a0the moral simplicities of their youth. McCain needs to take a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,415,87,534],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-188","category-elections","category-foreign-policy","category-mccain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654","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=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}