{"id":2273,"date":"2009-03-03T13:19:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T18:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2009-03-02T23:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T04:27:00","slug":"clear-eyed-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=2273","title":{"rendered":"Clear-eyed Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Cohen continues to make the case for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/02\/opinion\/02cohen.html?_r=1\">clear-eyed engagement with Iran<\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let\u2019s be clear: Iran\u2019s Islamic Republic is no Third Reich redux. Nor is it a totalitarian state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He suggests that Iran may prove to be what George W. Bush and the neoconservatives tried to make Iraq into: \u00a0a model for the Middle East of what a country that has come out the other side of extremism looks like, quoting a friend:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIran \u2014 the supposed enemy \u2014 is the one society that has gone through its extremist fervor and is coming out the other end. It is relatively stable and socially dynamic.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fareed Zakaria in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/187093\/page\/3\">a <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/187093\/page\/3\">Newsweek <\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/187093\/page\/3\">article seemingly designed to provoke the ire of the right-wing<\/a> argues that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We can better pursue our values if we recognize the local and cultural context, and appreciate that people want to find their own balance between freedom and order, liberty and license. In the end, time is on our side. Bin Ladenism has already lost ground in almost every Muslim country. Radical Islam will follow the same path. Wherever it is tried\u2014in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in parts of Nigeria and Pakistan\u2014people weary of its charms very quickly. The truth is that all Islamists, violent or not, lack answers to the problems of the modern world. They do not have a world view that can satisfy the aspirations of modern men and women. We do. That&#8217;s the most powerful weapon of all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Cohen continues to make the case for clear-eyed engagement with Iran:\u00a0 Let\u2019s be clear: Iran\u2019s Islamic Republic is no Third Reich redux. Nor is it a totalitarian state. He suggests that Iran may prove to be what George W. Bush and the neoconservatives tried to make Iraq into: \u00a0a model for the Middle East [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,167,28,367,9],"tags":[395,273,1463],"class_list":["post-2273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-iran","category-iraq","category-national-security","category-the-war-on-terrorism","tag-fareed-zakaria","tag-newsweek","tag-roger-cohen-the-new-york-times"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-AF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2286,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions\/2286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}