{"id":16292,"date":"2011-10-22T07:03:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T13:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16292"},"modified":"2011-10-22T07:10:39","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T13:10:39","slug":"john-mccain-on-libya-fallout-not-just-the-arab-spring-watch-out-mr-putin-maybe-even-the-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16292","title":{"rendered":"John McCain on Libya fallout: &#8216;Not just the Arab Spring&#8217;  Watch out Mr. Putin!  Maybe even the Chinese!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BBC Interview<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The governments in Syria, Russia and China should be &#8220;nervous&#8221; about the message sent by the fall of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, a former Republican presidential candidate has told BBC&#8217;s Newsnight programme.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the Spring, not just the Arab Spring&#8221;, Senator John McCain told Gavin Esler. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/programmes\/newsnight\/9620883.stm\">View the film<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regarding Libya&#8217;s &#8220;spring&#8221;, the great scholar McCain said, &#8220;We assisted them&#8221;.  At what point does a revolution of the people unequivocally become a foreign takeover?  Had the BBC bothered to ask the question the interview might have moved beyond ridiculous to borderline interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Interview The governments in Syria, Russia and China should be &#8220;nervous&#8221; about the message sent by the fall of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, a former Republican presidential candidate has told BBC&#8217;s Newsnight programme. &#8220;It is the Spring, not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16292\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4eM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16294,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16292\/revisions\/16294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}