{"id":21044,"date":"2010-08-01T23:03:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T23:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/thomas_friedman_the_great_double_game\/"},"modified":"2010-08-01T23:03:11","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T23:03:11","slug":"thomas_friedman_the_great_double_game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21044","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Friedman: The Great (Double) Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trove of WikiLeaks about the faltering U.S. war effort in Afghanistan has provoked many reactions, but for me it contains one clear message. It\u2019s actually an old piece of advice your parents may have given you before you went off to college: \u201cIf you are in a poker game and you don\u2019t know who the sucker is, it\u2019s probably you.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>In the case of the Great Game of Central Asia, that\u2019s us.<\/p>\n<p>Best I can tell from the WikiLeaks documents and other sources, we are paying Pakistan\u2019s Army and intelligence service to be two-faced. Otherwise, they would be just one-faced and 100 percent against us. The same could probably be said of Afghanistan\u2019s president, Hamid Karzai. But then everyone out there is wearing a mask \u201d\u201d or two.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/01\/opinion\/01friedman.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trove of WikiLeaks about the faltering U.S. war effort in Afghanistan has provoked many reactions, but for me it contains one clear message. It\u2019s actually an old piece of advice your parents may have given you before you went<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21044\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,209,201,144,343,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-asia","category-foreign-relations","category-pakistan","category-war-in-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}