{"id":104,"date":"2012-10-23T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2016-02-17T19:24:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T00:24:26","slug":"talking-peace-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Talking &#8220;Peace on Earth&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;\">In the <i>Post<\/i> again:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;\">Unfortunately, the rhetoric on display during Monday night\u2019s\u00a0<a style=\"color: black;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/decision2012\/aggressive-obama-cautious-romney-revealed-current-state-of-race\/2012\/10\/23\/3c407fae-1d18-11e2-8817-41b9a7aaabc7_story.html\" data-xslt=\"_http\">presidential debate<\/a>\u00a0did not reveal a clear distinction between the\u00a0<a style=\"color: black;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/decision2012\/analysis-final-debate-leads-romney-to-some-common-ground-with-obama\/2012\/10\/22\/a079d1a2-1c5d-11e2-ad90-ba5920e56eb3_story.html\" data-xslt=\"_http\">foreign policy platforms<\/a>\u00a0of the two presidential candidates.\u00a0 Both\u00a0former governor Romney and President Obama\u00a0<a style=\"color: black;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/dana-milbank-foreign-policy-a-bit-foreign-in-final-presidential-debate\/2012\/10\/22\/861a6204-1cbc-11e2-9cd5-b55c38388962_story.html\" data-xslt=\"_http\">laid out a vision<\/a>\u00a0that could best be articulated as \u201cpeace on earth and good will toward men.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;\">I recognize that ambitious language describing such lofty goals is the\u00a0<i>lingua franca<\/i>\u00a0of a foreign policy tradition that goes back for centuries, if not millennia.\u00a0The presidential candidate who does not set forth a plan for\u00a0<a style=\"color: black;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/plum-line\/post\/peacenik-mitt-gets-pummeled\/2012\/10\/22\/8c74308c-1cba-11e2-9cd5-b55c38388962_blog.html\" data-xslt=\"_http\">world peace<\/a>\u00a0and unencumbered freedom, might as well declare his own defeat.\u00a0The problem is, of course, that no administration in the history of the United States, or any other country for that matter, has ever come close to realizing this ambitious vision for the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;\">Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/presidential-debate-foreign-policies-of-obama-romney-miss-the-meaning-of-peace-on-earth\/2012\/10\/23\/58dfab5e-1d2b-11e2-b647-bb1668e64058_story.html\">more.<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the Post again: Unfortunately, the rhetoric on display during Monday night\u2019s\u00a0presidential debate\u00a0did not reveal a clear distinction between the\u00a0foreign policy platforms\u00a0of the \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=104\"> [...]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_excerpt -->","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ESBE-1G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunergoi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/debate_split2_rect-460x307.jpg?fit=460%2C307&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}