{"id":333,"date":"2005-02-14T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-14T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/14\/its-ambitions-exceed-its-reach\/"},"modified":"2005-02-14T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-14T13:01:00","slug":"its-ambitions-exceed-its-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/its-ambitions-exceed-its-reach\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Its ambitions exceed its reach&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/vodkapundit.com\/\">Vodkapundit<\/a>, a similar take on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A21977-2005Feb13.html\">the EU \/ US relationship<\/a> to mine from <a href=\"http:\/\/europhobia.blogspot.com\/2005\/02\/eu-us-relations-fresh-start.html\">the other day<\/a> (the basic point of which seemed, judging by the comments section, to have been missed by some readers). Interesting stuff and worth a look:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Take the &#8220;Greater Middle East&#8221; and imagine Europe and the United States working in tandem rather than vying with each other for influence. Imagine a well-choreographed &#8220;good cop, bad cop&#8221; tack on Iran, with the United States providing the muscle, lack of which has consistently stultified the Europeans as they tried to sweet-talk Tehran into abandoning the bomb. Or Israel\/Palestine. In the past, the United States and France have worked at cross-purposes, with Paris keener on competing than on collaborating with Washington in the Middle East. Together, the European Union and the United States could ensure that this promising post-Arafat moment does not vanish once more in the roar of terrorist bombs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Vodkapundit, a similar take on the EU \/ US relationship to mine from the other day (the basic point of which seemed, judging by the comments section, to have been missed by some readers). Interesting stuff and worth a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/02\/its-ambitions-exceed-its-reach\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}