{"id":881,"date":"2011-03-07T07:49:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T11:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=881"},"modified":"2011-03-07T07:49:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T11:49:16","slug":"a-terrible-price-for-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=881","title":{"rendered":"A Terrible Price for Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Helping Libya&#8217;s rebels condemns Saudi Arabia&#8217;s angry youth. That&#8217;s the pinch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/americas-secret-plan-to-arm-libyas-rebels-2234227.html\">the latest article from Robert Fisk<\/a>. If the Saudis will help the USA ship arms to Libya&#8217;s rebels, then the USA pretty much must turn a blind eye to the planned Shi&#8217;a Muslim &#8220;day of rage&#8221; in the East of Saudi Arabia this coming Friday. The USA may well have to turn a blind eye to protests in Saudi Arabia to keep a lid on oil prices, so the ball is in Saudi Arabia&#8217;s court: do they support the Libyan rebels for greater US complicity in crushing their dissent, or do they turn down the Libyan rebels so their own people won&#8217;t have that much to hope for as their dissent is crushed some time after the news in the USA runs footage of the action in Libya?<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the USA is finding ways to get itself entangled in this mess that will guaranteed make more enemies for the nation, no matter who it supports or which side wins.<\/p>\n<p>Quick word of advice for all young persons seeking a military career: buy an Arabic phrasebook and look into acquiring a stash of sand repellent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helping Libya&#8217;s rebels condemns Saudi Arabia&#8217;s angry youth. That&#8217;s the pinch of the latest article from Robert Fisk. If the Saudis will help the USA ship arms to Libya&#8217;s rebels, then the USA pretty much must turn a blind eye to the planned Shi&#8217;a Muslim &#8220;day of rage&#8221; in the East of Saudi Arabia this [&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-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hellholes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","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=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}