{"id":1489,"date":"2009-10-21T09:33:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T13:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2009-10-21T09:33:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T13:33:35","slug":"peace-at-any-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1489\/peace-at-any-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace at Any Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bret Stephens of the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704500604574481341183751038.html \" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em> posted a great piece comparing (or rather, contrasting) President Barack Obama\u2019s words and record on human rights. From President Obama\u2019s recent decision to cancel an appearance at the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall to his extending money-laden olive branches to Sudan and Burma, the candidate of hope and change is summing up to be depressingly less than foreign democracy advocates anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>Remember the White House\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/06\/22\/obama-continues-careful-response-irans-protests\/ \" target=\"_blank\">timidity during the riots and retaliations in Iran<\/a> earlier this year? There were people agitating for freedom while an American president worried what world opinion would think. Apparently, President Obama made the \u201cright\u201d decision, since his version of \u201cengagement\u201d garnered him a Nobel Peace Prize. It\u2019s too bad that \u2013 so far \u2013 he\u2019s more interested in securing peace with governments than peace for the people they allegedly serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal posted a great piece comparing (or rather, contrasting) President Barack Obama\u2019s words and record on human rights. From President Obama\u2019s recent decision to cancel an appearance at the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall to his extending money-laden olive branches to Sudan and Burma, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,327,328,264,312],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-berlin-wall","tag-burma","tag-nobel-peace-prize","tag-sudan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}