I’ve been behind on blogging lately; real life has been interfering in an entirely delightful manner.<\/p>\n
But just to let you know I’m not quite dead yet, a couple of links:<\/p>\n
Fouad Ajami writes in the Wall Street Journal: To venture into the Arab world, as I did recently over four weeks in Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan and Iraq, is to travel into Bush Country.<\/a><\/p>\n The Bush Doctrine is working. The dominoes are falling. Right now the Lebanese are eagerly anticipating their first real election in twenty years.<\/p>\n And Chrenkoff’s latest Good News from Iraq<\/a> made me cry, as usual. In the face of renewed terror attacks, much good is being accomplished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been behind on blogging lately; real life has been interfering in an entirely delightful manner. But just to let you know I’m not quite dead yet, a couple of links: Fouad Ajami writes in the Wall Street Journal: To venture into the Arab world, as I did recently over four weeks in Qatar, Kuwait, … Continue reading “Glory, glory”<\/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-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","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=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}