{"id":379,"date":"2005-02-22T10:04:47","date_gmt":"2005-02-22T17:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=379"},"modified":"2005-02-22T10:04:53","modified_gmt":"2005-02-22T17:04:53","slug":"press-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Press On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsisyphus.blogspot.com\/2005\/02\/our-man-in-brussels.html\">New Sisyphus<\/a> has a number of quotes and lots of commentary from George W. Bush&#8217;s recent speech in Brussels.  Bush <i>not<\/i> &#8220;moderating&#8221; his tone to appease the offended Old Europeans.  He&#8217;s holding up his record of extraordinary achievement &mdash; democracies in Afghanistan, Ukraine and Iraq, democratic fervor in Egypt, Jordan, Saudia Arabia, Syria and Iran, Libya&#8217;s capitulation, the exemplary US response to the Christmas tsunami &mdash; and saying, &#8220;Do you want to get on board?&#8221;  Or will you be shuffled off into the mist of obscurity while a new and better world emerges despite you?<\/p>\n<p>Update: Bush is <a href=\"http:\/\/belmontclub.blogspot.com\/2005\/02\/message-is-message.html\">walking the walk<\/a>: the US has cut off military aid to Togo in the wake of its military-backed unconstitutional presidential succession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Sisyphus has a number of quotes and lots of commentary from George W. Bush&#8217;s recent speech in Brussels. Bush not &#8220;moderating&#8221; his tone to appease the offended Old Europeans. He&#8217;s holding up his record of extraordinary achievement &mdash; democracies in Afghanistan, Ukraine and Iraq, democratic fervor in Egypt, Jordan, Saudia Arabia, Syria and Iran, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=379\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Press On&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}