{"id":377,"date":"2007-07-12T06:33:57","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T13:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=377"},"modified":"2007-07-12T06:34:50","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T13:34:50","slug":"government-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2007\/government-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070712\/ap_on_go_pr_wh\/us_iraq_118\">The US government will criticize the Iraqi government:<\/a><\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>It concludes among other things that the Iraqis have failed to pass long-promised laws that the administration has called key to national cohesion and economic recovery, such as legislation that would fairly divide Iraq&#8217;s oil resources.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Somebody needs to list &#8220;long-promised laws&#8221; that the Americans &#8220;have failed to pass.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Will the US government demand that the Iraqis  be more iron-fisted and less democratic than the Americans?<\/p>\n<p>If the US President promises a law, is it his task alone to make it happen? Not in our system of government.<\/p>\n<p>If someone in the US Congress promises a law, is it his task alone to make it happen? Not in our system of government.<\/p>\n<p>But the US government expects something different from the Iraqis, eh?<\/p>\n<p><i>shrug<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Politicians.<\/p>\n<p> \ud83d\ude09<\/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>The US government will criticize the Iraqi government: It concludes among other things that the Iraqis have failed to pass long-promised laws that the administration has called key to national cohesion and economic recovery, such as legislation that would fairly divide Iraq&#8217;s oil resources. Somebody needs to list &#8220;long-promised laws&#8221; that the Americans &#8220;have failed &#8230; <a title=\"Government Failure\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2007\/government-failure\/\" aria-label=\"More on Government Failure\">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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-65","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","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=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}