{"id":268,"date":"2003-12-15T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-15T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=268"},"modified":"2003-12-15T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-15T13:41:00","slug":"spoiling-for-a-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Spoiling for a fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A62533-2003Dec13?language=printer\">Apparently<\/a> at the urging of Richard Perle and others, including John McCain, George has decided to get a bit tougher with his soulmate Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Despite playing the Chechnya card, an issue George has often stated is a matter of <a href=\"http:\/\/english.peopledaily.com.cn\/200211\/22\/eng20021122_107286.shtml\">internal affairs<\/a>, the real spur in the cowboy&#8217;s saddle appears to be the recent jailing of Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky.  <\/p>\n<p>Power points on handling aggressive tycoons were faxed to Russia entitled &#8216;Enron:  The Fallout&#8217;.  However <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinr.com\/report.php?ac=view_report&#038;report_id=117\">the signs<\/a> continue to suggest the situation is much more complex.<\/p>\n<p>For good measure mention of the recent Duma elections are included in this developing attitude.<\/p>\n<p>George will do all he can to get the new dialogue down.  He&#8217;s preoccupied offering condolences to the son of Azerbaijan&#8217;s former President Geidar Aliev.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/357092.cms\">&#8220;<i>Aliev died in Cleveland , Ohio , on Friday<\/i>&#8221; <\/a> and will be buried today in a state funeral in Baku.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently at the urging of Richard Perle and others, including John McCain, George has decided to get a bit tougher with his soulmate Vladimir Putin. Despite playing the Chechnya card, an issue George has often stated is a matter of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=268\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","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=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}