{"id":2549,"date":"2009-03-30T08:09:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T13:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=2549"},"modified":"2009-03-30T08:09:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T13:09:37","slug":"the-obama-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=2549","title":{"rendered":"The Obama Doctrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/03\/09\/AR2009030902231.html\">Richard Cohen in the <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/03\/09\/AR2009030902231.html\">Washington Post<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is a tricky, auspicious moment for a young president. [Obama] is ending one century, beginning another. Concisely, he essentially laid out his approach to foreign policy in a blurb for a recently reissued book by the late theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. He wrote that he took away from Niebuhr&#8217;s works &#8220;the compelling idea that there&#8217;s serious evil in the world, and hardship and pain.&#8221; He added that &#8220;we should be humble and modest in our belief we can eliminate those things. But we shouldn&#8217;t use that as an excuse for cynicism and inaction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This, then, is the Obama Doctrine: wisely, to have none at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Cohen in the Washington Post: This is a tricky, auspicious moment for a young president. [Obama] is ending one century, beginning another. Concisely, he essentially laid out his approach to foreign policy in a blurb for a recently reissued book by the late theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. He wrote that he took away from Niebuhr&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[143,4,458],"tags":[1599,1598,291],"class_list":["post-2549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-politics","category-the-opinionsphere","tag-reinhold-niebuhr","tag-richard-cohen","tag-washington-post"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-F7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549","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=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2556,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions\/2556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}