{"id":3123,"date":"2008-12-07T12:07:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T06:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2008-12-07T12:07:39","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T06:37:39","slug":"shameful-piece-by-the-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200812\/shameful-piece-by-the-economist\/","title":{"rendered":"Shameful Piece by the Economist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, the Economist was cheering not only the invasion of Afghanistan, but also that of Iraq. Now, when it comes to India&#8217;s response to the Mumbai terror attacks, the Economist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/opinion\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=12724958&amp;source=hptextfeature\">has declared\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0that we should not emulate the US &#8220;mistakes&#8221; like&#8230; the invasion of Afghanistan. \u00a0Worse still, now it turns out that the US incursions into Pakistan &#8211; the threat of which is the only thing that is keeping Pakistan in check, are also a bad idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, the Economist was cheering not only the invasion of Afghanistan, but also that of Iraq. Now, when it comes to India&#8217;s response to the Mumbai terror attacks, the Economist has declared\u00a0\u00a0that we should not emulate the US &#8220;mistakes&#8221; like&#8230; the invasion of Afghanistan. \u00a0Worse still, now it turns out that the US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[172,207,226,227,188,228,224],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3124,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions\/3124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}