{"id":4784,"date":"2008-05-14T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T06:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2008-05-14T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T06:21:00","slug":"america-and-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/america-and-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"America and the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>We stumbled for eight years under Bill Clinton over how to make peace in the Middle East, and then we stumbled for eight years under George Bush over how to make war there, [and the result is] an America that is trapped in a region which it cannot fix and it cannot abandon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s Aaron David Miller, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0553804901\/themiddlestag-20\" title=\"The Much Too Promised Land -- Aaron David Miller\">&#8220;The Much Too Promised Land&#8221;<\/a>, as quoted by Thomas Friedman in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/14\/opinion\/14friedman.html\" title=\"The New Cold War -- Thomas Friedman\">his latest column<\/a>. Do you think any of the presidential candidates still in the race would agree with all of that analysis?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>We stumbled for eight years under Bill Clinton over how to make peace in the Middle East, and then we stumbled for eight years under George Bush over how to make war there, [and the result is] an America that is trapped in a region which it cannot fix and it cannot abandon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s Aaron David Miller, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0553804901\/themiddlestag-20\" title=\"The Much Too Promised Land -- Aaron David Miller\">&#8220;The Much Too Promised Land&#8221;<\/a>, as quoted by Thomas Friedman in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/14\/opinion\/14friedman.html\" title=\"The New Cold War -- Thomas Friedman\">his latest column<\/a>. Do you think any of the presidential candidates still in the race would agree with all of that analysis?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>America and the Middle East - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/america-and-the-middle-east\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"America and the Middle East - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We stumbled for eight years under Bill Clinton over how to make peace in the Middle East, and then we stumbled for eight years under George Bush over how to make war there, [and the result is] an America that is trapped in a region which it cannot fix and it cannot abandon. 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