{"id":16635,"date":"2012-02-06T06:15:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T12:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16635"},"modified":"2012-02-06T06:15:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T12:15:02","slug":"justin-raimondo-the-syrian-crucible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16635","title":{"rendered":"Justin Raimondo: The Syrian Crucible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Democracy promotion\u201d and regime change in the Middle East<\/p>\n<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/author\/justin\/\">Justin Raimondo<\/a>, February 06, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalpost.com\/dispatch\/news\/regions\/middle-east\/egypt\/120205\/egypt-proceeds-crackdown-pro-democracy-groups\">arrest and pending trial<\/a> of foreign \u201cdemocracy activists\u201d in Egypt on charges they violated laws prohibiting funding by foreign governments of NGOs has caused an uproar in Washington. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton has publicly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/egypts-aid-from-us-in-peril-amid-crackdown-on-pro-democracy-groups\/2012\/02\/03\/gIQAp5GQqQ_story.html\">warned Cairo<\/a> this endangers the $1.55 billion in aid the US is supposed to shell out this year, but the Egyptians don\u2019t seem all that impressed. \u201cThe government will not hesitate to expose foreign schemes that threaten the stability of the homeland,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/06\/world\/middleeast\/egypt-will-try-19-americans-on-criminal-charges.html\">Ms. Abu el-Naga<\/a> speaking on behalf of the Egyptian government. <em>Al Ahram<\/em>, the state newspaper, reporting on this, added \u201cshe is betting on the true essence of the Egyptian people to come together during crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/justin\/2012\/02\/05\/the-syrian-crucible\/\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;The Syrian Crucible&#8221; by Justin Raimondo<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Democracy promotion\u201d and regime change in the Middle East by Justin Raimondo, February 06, 2012 The arrest and pending trial of foreign \u201cdemocracy activists\u201d in Egypt on charges they violated laws prohibiting funding by foreign governments of NGOs has caused &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16635\">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-16635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4kj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16635","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=16635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16638,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16635\/revisions\/16638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}