{"id":4157,"date":"2007-02-17T13:33:59","date_gmt":"2007-02-17T21:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4157"},"modified":"2007-02-17T15:34:36","modified_gmt":"2007-02-17T23:34:36","slug":"fareed-zakaria-puts-iran-in-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4157","title":{"rendered":"Fareed Zakaria Puts Iran In Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest Blogged by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotpotatomash.com\">Alan Breslauer<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qGWvYijP54o\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"240\" height=\"198\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"6\" align=\"right\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">&#8220;Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it&#8221; &#8211; George Santayana<\/div>\n<p><em>Newsweek&#8217;s<\/em> Fareed Zakaria, who has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radaronline.com\/features\/2007\/01\/betting_on_iraq_4.php\">criticized<\/a> for his behind the scenes role in helping the Bush administration&#8217;s PR campaign in the run-up to the Iraq war, appears to have learned from his mistakes as far as Iran is concerned.  In a week where Zakaria&#8217;s own employer made escalating Iranian\/US tensions its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/17086418\/site\/newsweek\/\">cover story<\/a>, Zakaria douses the Bush administration&#8217;s rhetoric about the Iranian threat with a dose of reality. While Zakaria would be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/16240566\/site\/newsweek\/page\/2\/\">first to admit<\/a> that the disastrous Iraq war has strengthened Iran &#8211; along with Vladimir Putin, the Saudi royals, Egypt&#8217;s Hosni Mubarak and the Syrian regime &#8211; he also recognizes that &#8220;at the end of the day, Iran is a poorly run, oil rich oligarchy, that the Mullahs are running into the ground.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer &#8220;Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it&#8221; &#8211; George Santayana Newsweek&#8217;s Fareed Zakaria, who has been criticized for his behind the scenes role in helping the Bush administration&#8217;s PR campaign in the run-up to the Iraq war, appears to have learned from his mistakes as far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,215],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-pbs","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4157"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}