{"id":208,"date":"2007-02-27T12:01:18","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T17:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/27\/lets-watch-this-productive-moment-in-time\/"},"modified":"2007-02-27T12:01:18","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T17:01:18","slug":"lets-watch-this-productive-moment-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s watch this productive moment in time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB117257168852620501.html?mod=world_news_whats_news\" target=\"_blank\">AP, (by way of the Wall Street Journal) the US and Iraq will hold a conference<\/a> with Syria and Iran;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Envoys from the West and Islamic nations &#8212; including Iran, Syria and the U.S. &#8212; are expected to attend a conference next month on efforts to stabilize Iraq, a diplomatic adviser said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"times\">Earlier, U.S. and Iraqi forces staged raids in Baghdad&#8217;s main Shiite militant stronghold as part of politically sensitive forays into areas loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al Sadr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"times\">The multination conference, planned for mid-March in Baghdad, is an attempt by the government to seek greater regional assistance and study ways to fight insurgents and tensions between Iraq&#8217;s majority Shiites and Sunnis. No firm date has been set.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"times\">Talk about mental masturbation. The Iranians and Syrians will take just the event all by itself as an indication that they&#8217;ve got us over a barrel and they&#8217;ll make all kinds of moronic demands.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"times\">Some nations had expressed reservations about taking part in the conference because of security concerns and political sensitivities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"times\">I think I&#8217;d be more wary of presenting an image of weakness when <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/international\/middleEast\/view.bg?articleid=185258\" target=\"_blank\">we&#8217;re winning the war<\/a> than I&#8217;d be wary of political sensitivities. Maybe a couple of air strikes on those smugglers on the Iran border would help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to AP, (by way of the Wall Street Journal) the US and Iraq will hold &hellip; <a title=\"Let&#8217;s watch this productive moment in time\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=208\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let&#8217;s watch this productive moment in time<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}