{"id":298106,"date":"2017-03-08T14:15:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T13:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/official-washington-hails-an-anti-russia-hawk\/"},"modified":"2017-03-08T14:15:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T13:15:05","slug":"official-washington-hails-an-anti-russia-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/official-washington-hails-an-anti-russia-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Washington Hails an Anti-Russia Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> President Trump\u2019s complaint that Official Washington is trying to block his policies, including d\u00e9tente with Russia, is underscored by the praise heaped on a departing State Department official, writes James W Carden.<\/p>\n<p>By James W Carden<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s probably safe to wager that few people outside of Washington, and perhaps even quite a few people inside it, have ever heard of Ambassador Daniel Fried \u2014 at least not until very recently.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22865\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/maxresdefault-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/maxresdefault-1-300x185.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22865\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/maxresdefault-1-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/maxresdefault-1-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/maxresdefault-1-1028x635.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/maxresdefault-1-160x99.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22865\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/maxresdefault-1-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/maxresdefault-1-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/maxresdefault-1-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/maxresdefault-1-1028x635.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/maxresdefault-1-160x99.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Ambassador Daniel Fried, who recently retired as the State Department\u2019s coordinator for sanctions policy. (Photo from YouTube)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The longtime Ambassador, a 40-year veteran of the U.S. State Department, recently made headlines in Time, Newsweek, Reuters, Politico and NPR for a farewell speech he made to his State Department colleagues during which he took a parting shot at President Trump for the latter\u2019s widely assumed (but yet to be acted upon) desire to come to an accommodation with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Fried\u2019s address won praise from Establishment figures like former Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken (a \u201cpowerful defense of liberal international order\u201d), Atlantic Council executive Damon Wilson ( a \u201cclarion call for the U.S. to believe in itself and lead [a] liberal order\u201d) and New York Times columnist Roger Cohen (\u201ca superb summation of everything worth fighting for to keep this planet fit for human habitation\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Why all the excitement? Well for one, <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4682994\/diplomat-daniel-fried-retirement-speech\/\">Frieds\u2019s farewell<\/a> hit the many of Establishment\u2019s erogenous zones:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013NATO expansion as an unalloyed good: <em>NATO and the E.U. \u2013 grew to embrace 100 million liberated Europeans\u2026 this great achievement is now under assault by Russia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2013Realists just don\u2019t \u201cget it\u201d: <em>George Kennan didn<\/em><em>\u2019<\/em><em>t think much of what he termed America<\/em><em>\u2019<\/em><em>s moralistic-legalistic tradition. But this foreign policy exceptionalism was the heart of our Grand Strategy through two World Wars, the Cold War and the post-1989 era, and it was crowned with success.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2013And then there is Fried\u2019s tendentious (and among neoconservatives and liberal interventionists widely shared) rendering of history and his puzzling conflation of the world situations as they obtained in 1940 and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/03\/07\/official-washington-hails-an-anti-russia-hawk\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: President Trump\u2019s complaint that Official Washington is trying to block his policies, including d\u00e9tente with Russia, is underscored by the praise heaped on a departing State Department official, writes James W Carden. By James W Carden It\u2019s probably safe to wager that few people outside of Washington, and perhaps even quite a few people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-298106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}