{"id":43142,"date":"2014-03-19T17:30:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T17:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_newspaper_editorial_on_the_obama_admin-_foreign_policy-trimming_the_\/"},"modified":"2014-03-19T17:30:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T17:30:27","slug":"local_newspaper_editorial_on_the_obama_admin-_foreign_policy-trimming_the_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43142","title":{"rendered":"Local Newspaper Editorial on Obama Admin. Foreign Policy&#8211;Trimming the &#39;Big Stick&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For decades a school of American strategists has bewailed what they call the nation&#8217;s military &#8220;overreach&#8221; and urged a radical reduction in defense spending as good for world peace.<\/p>\n<p>We are about to find out if they were right.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the argument, proponents of a strong military noted that it is the U.S. military&#8217;s presence abroad, backed by strong reinforcements, that has put a lid on regional wars and kept the sea lanes open.<\/p>\n<p>And that, in turn, has created peaceful conditions necessary for an historic expansion of world trade that has lifted billions out of poverty and kept the United States the world&#8217;s strongest economy.<\/p>\n<p>We are also about to find out if they were wrong.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20140317\/PC1002\/140319518\/1022\/trimming-the-big-stick\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades a school of American strategists has bewailed what they call the nation&#8217;s military &#8220;overreach&#8221; and urged a radical reduction in defense spending as good for world peace. We are about to find out if they were right. On<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43142\">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":[40,50,209,143,144,616,151,667],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43142","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=43142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}