{"id":8850,"date":"2011-03-10T19:51:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T00:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8850"},"modified":"2011-03-10T19:51:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T00:51:04","slug":"obama-clinton-dither-while-cameron-sarkozy-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8850\/obama-clinton-dither-while-cameron-sarkozy-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama, Clinton Dither While Cameron, Sarkozy Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody better tell Team Obama that world crises abhor leadership vacuums.\u00a0 With Secretary of State Hillary Clinton <a href=\"http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/libyaNews\/idAFN1013765320110310?sp=true\" target=\"_blank\">incapable of acting without a UN permission slip,<\/a> American allies are taking matters into their own hands.<\/p>\n<p>British Prime Minister David Cameron is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/posts\/view\/233866\/David-Cameron-leads-the-calls-for-EU-action-against-Colonel-Gaddafi\" target=\"_blank\">pressing for a no-fly zone<\/a>.\u00a0 French President Nicolas Sarkozy granted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20110310-France-NTC-national-transitional-council-embassy-Libya \" target=\"_blank\">diplomatic recognition to Libya\u2019s opposition<\/a>, and will open an embassy in the rebel capitol of Benghazi.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s clear Britain and France aren\u2019t waiting for Belize and Lichtenstein to approve sensible responses to the Libyan crisis.\u00a0 Is President Barack Obama so contemptuous of America\u2019s superpower status that he\u2019s willing to cede its leadership role to countries whose foreign policy significance ended with the demise of their colonial empires?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody better tell Team Obama that world crises abhor leadership vacuums.\u00a0 With Secretary of State Hillary Clinton incapable of acting without a UN permission slip, American allies are taking matters into their own hands. British Prime Minister David Cameron is pressing for a no-fly zone.\u00a0 French President Nicolas Sarkozy granted diplomatic recognition to Libya\u2019s opposition, [&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":[143,926,1836,2466,118,2436,953,2467,169],"class_list":["post-8850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-david-cameron","tag-france","tag-great-britain","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-libya","tag-nicolas-sarkozy","tag-no-fly-zone","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850","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=8850"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8854,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions\/8854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}