{"id":20,"date":"2003-02-18T14:51:41","date_gmt":"2003-02-18T20:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2007-02-03T11:09:55","modified_gmt":"2007-02-03T17:09:55","slug":"chirac-new-europe-wrong-childish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2003\/02\/chirac-new-europe-wrong-childish\/","title":{"rendered":"Chirac: &#8216;New Europe&#8217; Wrong, Childish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/WORLD\/europe\/02\/18\/sprj.irq.chirac\/index.html\">Chirac: &#8216;New Europe&#8217; Wrong, Childish<\/a><br \/>\nYa know, I&#8217;m gettin&#8217; a little tired of &#8216;France equals Europe&#8221; line of reasoning coming out of Paris.  A quote: <\/p>\n<dd>\n&#8220;It is not really responsible behavior. It is not well brought-up behavior. They missed a good opportunity to keep quiet.&#8221; <\/dd>\n<p>Hello?  They are agreeing with the UK, Spain, and several other EU members.  There is no single EU policy on Iraq, and I personally doubt if the EU will ever<br \/>\nhave a common foreign policy. But this kind of hubris is particularly ga(u)lling.<\/p>\n<p>PS Best line of late: David Letterman &#8211; &#8220;The last time the French asked for more proof it arrived on the back of a German tank driven down the Champs-Elysee.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chirac: &#8216;New Europe&#8217; Wrong, Childish Ya know, I&#8217;m gettin&#8217; a little tired of &#8216;France equals Europe&#8221; line of reasoning coming out of Paris. A quote:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}