{"id":92,"date":"2006-01-26T07:57:02","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T15:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=92"},"modified":"2006-01-26T07:59:53","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T15:59:53","slug":"pray-for-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/pray-for-the-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Pray for the President"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48515\">Iran is a riddle<\/a> &#8212; a problem, actually. A huge problem, I would say. Even a crisis, in my estimation.<\/p>\n<p><dd>But what if certain small nations \u00e2\u20ac\u201c perhaps including some ruled by reckless dictators who could not be counted on to behave sensibly \u00e2\u20ac\u201c developed or obtained nuclear weapons? That was the real nightmare.<\/dd>\n<\/p>\n<p><dd>The trouble is that at least two relatively small but obstreperous nations \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Iran and North Korea \u00e2\u20ac\u201c are becoming sophisticated enough, technologically, to construct nuclear weapons, and are showing every sign of intending to use them to blackmail the rest of the world.<\/dd>\n<\/p>\n<p><dd>This grim problem has shown up on President Bush&#8217;s watch, and he cannot escape having to decide what to do about it. Earlier presidents gladly postponed a decision, but Bush doesn&#8217;t have that luxury. [&#8230;] Bush alone must decide.<\/dd>\n<\/p>\n<p><dd>Such are the considerations President Bush must be weighing, and it is difficult not to feel sorry for him as he does so. But he sought the presidency, after all, including its burdens. Iran is clearly one of the greatest, and war (in the form of air strikes) simply cannot be ruled out.<\/dd>\n<\/p>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>May God direct him.<\/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>Iran is a riddle &#8212; a problem, actually. A huge problem, I would say. Even a crisis, in my estimation. But what if certain small nations \u00e2\u20ac\u201c perhaps including some ruled by reckless dictators who could not be counted on to behave sensibly \u00e2\u20ac\u201c developed or obtained nuclear weapons? That was the real nightmare. The &#8230; <a title=\"Pray for the President\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/pray-for-the-president\/\" aria-label=\"More on Pray for the President\">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":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-1u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}