{"id":106,"date":"2007-01-20T09:22:32","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T17:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/20\/kissinger-confesses-says-it-really-is-a-case-of-blood-for-oil\/"},"modified":"2007-01-20T09:23:34","modified_gmt":"2007-01-20T17:23:34","slug":"kissinger-confesses-says-it-really-is-a-case-of-blood-for-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/misc\/politics\/kissinger-confesses-says-it-really-is-a-case-of-blood-for-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Kissinger confesses, says it really is a case of blood for oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a startling admission, Henry Kissinger, <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Kissinger on the war in Iraq\" href=\"http:\/\/www.khaleejtimes.com\/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data\/opinion\/2007\/January\/opinion_January62.xml&#038;section=opinion&#038;col=\">writing an op-ed piece in &#8212; of all places &#8212; the <em>Khaleej Times<\/em><\/a> (Dubai), says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>American forces are &#8230; in Iraq not as a favour to its government or as a reward for its conduct. They are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(In related news, I was in khaleej once, and all I got was a crummy post-graduate degree.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a startling admission, Henry Kissinger, writing an op-ed piece in &#8212; of all places &#8212; the Khaleej Times (Dubai), says: American forces are &#8230; in Iraq not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}