{"id":32744,"date":"2012-11-08T12:06:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T16:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32744"},"modified":"2012-11-08T12:06:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T16:06:02","slug":"flag-makers-in-pakistan-joyous-about-obama-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32744","title":{"rendered":"Flag makers in Pakistan joyous about Obama reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent us this link to <a href=\"http:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/articles\/2012\/11\/08\/248358.html\">Al Arabiya News<\/a> on how some in Pakistan are quietly celebrating the re-election of President Obama. I looked all over the place trying to find something that said it was satire or had it&#8217;s roots in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2012\/09\/american-flag-nearly-dies-after-inhaling-fumes-of-burning-anti-american-protesters\/\">The Duffel Blog<\/a> or something, but apparently it&#8217;s legitimate news that flag makers in Pakistan are excited that Obama has been re-elected;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Demonstrations against Washington\u2019s program of missile strikes against suspected Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants are common in Pakistan, and no protest is complete without a Stars and Stripes being sent up in flames.<\/p>\n<p>Nadeem Shah, the owner of a flag business in Rawalpindi, the twin city of the capital Islamabad, said he expected more drone strikes &#8212; and more protests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course Obama has become stronger now and he will push his policies harder and there will be more drone strikes because he himself is stronger now,\u201d Shah told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the drone strikes increase the protests against these strikes will also increase in Pakistan and it can have an impact on the flags and poster business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s flag industry enjoyed a boom in September when a U.S.-made anti-Islam film sparked weeks of demonstrations, almost all lit up with \u201cOld Glory\u201d being burned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So there you go &#8211; more jobs for Pakistanis. I&#8217;m sure this administration can add this into Labor Department numbers somehow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent us this link to Al Arabiya News on how some in Pakistan are quietly &hellip; <a title=\"Flag makers in Pakistan joyous about Obama reelection\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32744\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flag makers in Pakistan joyous about Obama reelection<\/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":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32744","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=32744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}