{"id":1500,"date":"2003-04-15T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-15T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2003-04-15T10:52:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-15T14:52:00","slug":"good-cop-bad-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/04\/15\/10\/52\/good-cop-bad-cop\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Cop Bad Cop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m not the only one to <a href=\"..\/Blogfiles\/2003_04_13_WeekArchive.php#92596064\">notice<\/a> how the US\/UK are performing the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&#038;q=syria+good+cop+bad+cop\">good cop\/bad cop<\/a> routine on Syria.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcnews.go.com\/sections\/world\/DailyNews\/iraq_syria030415.html\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The wrangling over Iraq&#8217;s neighbor Syria is starting to look like an international version of &#8220;good cop\/bad cop&#8221;.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although there are some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Iraq\/Story\/0,2763,937105,00.html\">reports from &#8220;sources&#8221; that Bush has ruled out a war against Syria<\/a> &#8211; possibly because the his good family friends the Sauds were so dead set against it.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Iraq\/Story\/0,2763,937105,00.html\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The White House has privately ruled out suggestions that the US should go to war against Syria following its military success in Iraq, and has blocked preliminary planning for such a campaign in the Pentagon, the Guardian learned yesterday.<br \/>\nIn the past few weeks, the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, ordered contingency plans for a war on Syria to be reviewed following the fall of Baghdad &#8230; &#8220;It&#8217;s a bit of a good cop, bad cop routine,&#8221; one Whitehall official said of the tougher line coming from the US.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a>Earlier <a href=\"..\/Blogfiles\/2003_04_13_WeekArchive.php#92596064\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m not the only one to notice how the US\/UK are performing the good cop\/bad cop routine on Syria. The wrangling over Iraq&#8217;s neighbor Syria is starting to look like an international version&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}