{"id":8175,"date":"2006-08-11T09:44:34","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T13:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8175.html"},"modified":"2006-08-11T09:44:34","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T13:44:34","slug":"a-new-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/a-new-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8216;new Middle East&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something tells me King Abdullah, one of the United States&#8217; closest allies in the Middle East, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/08\/10\/AR2006081001562.html\">isn&#8217;t terribly impressed<\/a> with the Bush administration&#8217;s efforts to transform the region.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A British Broadcasting Co. interviewer, chatting with major U.S. ally Jordan&#8217;s King Abdullah , began: &#8221; Condoleezza Rice called it the birth pangs of a new Middle East, but it . . .&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A new Middle East?&#8221; his highness interjected. &#8220;The way I&#8217;m looking at this new Middle East, I&#8217;m seeing what is happening in Somalia, I&#8217;m seeing what&#8217;s happening in Gaza, I see what&#8217;s happening in Lebanon, I&#8217;m seeing what&#8217;s happening in Iraq. This is a new Middle East?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, yes. Is King Abdullah not impressed with &#8220;freedom on the march&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something tells me King Abdullah, one of the United States&#8217; closest allies in the Middle East, isn&#8217;t terribly impressed with the Bush administration&#8217;s efforts to transform the region. A British Broadcasting Co. interviewer, chatting with major U.S. ally Jordan&#8217;s King Abdullah , began: &#8221; Condoleezza Rice called it the birth pangs of a new Middle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}