{"id":1258,"date":"2002-12-15T03:08:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-15T07:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2002-12-15T03:08:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-15T07:08:00","slug":"double-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/12\/15\/03\/08\/double-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Standards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I keep reading an undue amount of US anti-EU articles, harping on about the fact that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=turkey+european.union\">EU denied the Turkish request for membership<\/a>. I think in the frequency and stridency of these articles I detect a little US defensiveness because under the same criteria, the EU would have to deny any US membership application: support for the death penalty, and endorsement of torture in the service of the state. 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