{"id":8885,"date":"2011-03-11T18:34:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T23:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8885"},"modified":"2011-03-11T18:34:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T23:34:09","slug":"mid-east-wars-asian-quakes-reawaken-emphasis-on-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8885\/mid-east-wars-asian-quakes-reawaken-emphasis-on-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid East Wars, Asian Quakes Reawaken Emphasis on Foreign Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is never a dull day in the Oval Office.\u00a0 In the midst of budget fights and 2012 politicking, President Barack Obama surely does not relish the foreign policy \u201cdistractions\u201d that are dominating the news cycle, if not his personal schedule.<\/p>\n<p>But Obama can\u2019t continue to avoid his office\u2019s innate leadership responsibilities in the wake of yet another humanitarian crisis.\u00a0 First, he dithered while an enormous oil leak ravaged the Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0 Then, he looked the other way while Middle East protests pushed the region into chaos.\u00a0 If Obama lets <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/japan-earthquake-nuclear-power-reactor-damaged-high-radiation\/story?id=13114181\" target=\"_blank\">this pitch<\/a> from wrecked Japan sail by with America\u2019s big stick resting on his shoulder, his disastrous responses will be the perfect metaphor for his catastrophic presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is never a dull day in the Oval Office.\u00a0 In the midst of budget fights and 2012 politicking, President Barack Obama surely does not relish the foreign policy \u201cdistractions\u201d that are dominating the news cycle, if not his personal schedule. But Obama can\u2019t continue to avoid his office\u2019s innate leadership responsibilities in the wake [&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":[2472,2471,1300,1125],"class_list":["post-8885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-disaster","tag-earthquake","tag-japan","tag-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8885","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=8885"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8889,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8885\/revisions\/8889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}