{"id":396998,"date":"2019-02-23T23:08:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T22:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/what-if-they-started-a-war\/"},"modified":"2019-02-23T23:08:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T22:08:02","slug":"what-if-they-started-a-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/what-if-they-started-a-war\/","title":{"rendered":"What If They Started a War"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The humiliation of United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Warsaw last week was a good thing. The ancient Greeks, exercising their demonstrated ability to synthesize defining characteristics, had a word for it: hubris. Hubris is when one develops an extreme and unreasonable feeling of confidence in a certain course of action that inevitably leads to one\u2019s downfall when that conceit proves to be based on false principles.<\/p>\n

Pompeo was in Warsaw for a \u201csummit\u201d arranged by the US State Department in partnership with the Polish government to discuss with representatives of sixty nations what to do about the fractious situation in the Middle East. In advance, he promised that the meeting would \u201cdeliver really good outcomes.\u201d The gathering was initially conceived as a \u201cwar against Iran\u201d precursor, intended to pull together a coalition against the Persians, but when it became clear that many of the potential participants would balk at such a designation, it assumed a broader agenda concerning \u201cPeace and Security in the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria were not, not surprisingly, invited as some of them were the expected targets of whatever remedial action the conference might recommend. Israel\u2019s Benjamin Netanyahu was, of course, present, tweeting in advance of the gathering that it would be all about \u201cwar against Iran.\u201d He also characteristically delivered a warning that Iran was planning a \u201csecond holocaust\u201d for his country.
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Many countries, including regional power Turkey, and global powers Russia and China refused to participate at all. The European Union, the French and the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The humiliation of United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Warsaw last week was a good thing. The ancient Greeks, exercising their demonstrated ability to synthesize defining characteristics, had a word for it: hubris. Hubris is when one develops an extreme and unreasonable feeling of confidence in a certain course of action that inevitably […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-396998","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\/396998","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}