{"id":3054,"date":"2015-01-19T07:59:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T12:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dougsbriefcase.com\/blog\/?p=3054"},"modified":"2015-01-19T07:59:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T12:59:47","slug":"putin-islamists-arent-living-another-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dougsbriefcase.com\/blog\/putin-islamists-arent-living-another-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin And Islamists Aren\u2019t Living In Another World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weeks after Rus\u00adsia seized Crimea, Russ\u00adian Pres\u00adi\u00addent Vladimir Putin con\u00adtin\u00adued to insist that Rus\u00adsia had\u00adn\u2019t seized Crimea.<\/p>\n

Ger\u00adman Chan\u00adcel\u00adlor Angela Merkel, with whom Putin had enjoyed a rea\u00adson\u00adably good rela\u00adtion\u00adship, final\u00adly despaired of con\u00advinc\u00ading him to back down.  \u201cHe\u2019s in anoth\u00ader world,\u201d Merkel report\u00aded\u00adly told<\/a> Pres\u00adi\u00addent Obama.<\/p>\n

Merkel was wrong. Putin is very much in this world and doing quite well. So are rad\u00adi\u00adcal Islamists, as they remind\u00aded us again with the Char\u00adlie Heb\u00addo<\/em> atroc\u00adi\u00adties. It is West\u00adern lead\u00aders who seem to be liv\u00ading in anoth\u00ader world.  Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weeks after Rus\u00adsia seized Crimea, Russ\u00adian Pres\u00adi\u00addent Vladimir Putin con\u00adtin\u00adued to insist that Rus\u00adsia had\u00adn\u2019t seized Crimea. Ger\u00adman Chan\u00adcel\u00adlor Angela Merkel, with whom Putin had enjoyed a rea\u00adson\u00adably good rela\u00adtion\u00adship, final\u00adly despaired of con\u00advinc\u00ading him to back down.  \u201cHe\u2019s in \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u2192<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_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,"nfd_image_url":"","nfd_onboarding_generated":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t