{"id":1460,"date":"2009-02-20T08:13:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T16:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2009-03-01T08:16:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T16:16:11","slug":"borderline-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/borderline-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Borderline Perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s the story: <a href='http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2009\/WORLD\/americas\/02\/18\/mexico.drug.violence\/'>Drug violence spins Mexico toward &#8216;civil war&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the piece that provokes this post:<\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>&#8230;the United States helps fuel the violence, not only by providing a ready market for illegal drugs, but also by supplying the vast majority of weapons used by drug gangs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Victimhood in international relations &#8212; great.<\/p>\n<p>How about an alternate rendition?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;<strike>the United States<\/strike> Mexico helps fuel the violence, not only by providing a ready market for <strike>illegal drugs<\/strike> weapons used by drug gangs, but also by supplying the vast majority of <strike>weapons used by drug gangs<\/strike> illegal drugs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting, no?<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;do I (and\/or you) do this sort of thing in my our own communicating?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s the story: Drug violence spins Mexico toward &#8216;civil war&#8217;. And here&#8217;s the piece that provokes this post: &#8230;the United States helps fuel the violence, not only by providing a ready market for illegal drugs, but also by supplying the vast majority of weapons used by drug gangs. Victimhood in international relations &#8212; great. &#8230; <a title=\"Borderline Perspectives\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/borderline-perspectives\/\" aria-label=\"More on Borderline Perspectives\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[395,8,534],"tags":[546,793,171],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumb-and-such","category-politics","category-todays-thought","tag-borders","tag-drug-wars","tag-mexico"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-ny","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}