{"id":14,"date":"2009-07-29T17:13:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T21:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=14"},"modified":"2009-07-29T17:14:02","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T21:14:02","slug":"middle-east-mess-part-34466558","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Middle-East Mess, Part 34466558"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/opinion\/commentators\/fisk\/robert-fisk-gulf-war-legacy-flares-as-stingy-kuwait-puts-the-squeeze-on-iraq-1764031.html\">Robert Fisk on the continuing saga of Iraq and Kuwait<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls&#8230; this is a mess. Kuwait still wants reparations from Iraq over the invasion of 1990. Iraq&#8217;s got its back up against the wall, and Kuwait&#8217;s kicking them when they&#8217;re down. Fisk asks if this might not just lead to a situation such as what followed the heavy reparations against Germany in 1919? Once the Allied forces ended their occupation, the German economy collapsed and they elected a radical party to their legislature&#8230; and then that party used a parliamentary maneuver to gain total control of the government&#8230; you know, the Nazis? (By the way, Germany&#8217;s still occupied by British, French, and US troops&#8230; we have no plans to leave, like in 1919&#8230;) <\/p>\n<p>Harsh economic times produce strongmen, and not just in Germany: witness Chavez and others of his ilk. Does Kuwait really want to add Iraq to that list? The US forces go home in 2011&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Fisk on the continuing saga of Iraq and Kuwait Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls&#8230; this is a mess. Kuwait still wants reparations from Iraq over the invasion of 1990. Iraq&#8217;s got its back up against the wall, and Kuwait&#8217;s kicking them when they&#8217;re down. Fisk asks if this might not just lead to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hellholes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}