{"id":2418,"date":"2011-01-23T19:43:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T19:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2011-01-23T19:48:52","modified_gmt":"2011-01-23T19:48:52","slug":"iran_reagan_car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2418","title":{"rendered":"Iran, Reagan, Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsidethebeltway.com\/thirty-years-later-how-iran-beat-us-more-than-once\/\" target=\"browser\">at Outside the Beltway<\/a>, Doug Mataconis comments (wisely) on Ted Koppel&#8217;s column on Iran. He concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Leaving the Reagan criticism aside, though, I think Koppel&#8217;s overall point is largely correct. Thirty years after the hostages came home, we still haven&#8217;t figured out how to deal with Iran.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One core issue is, I believe, that Iran was playing against us, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/009078.html\" target=\"browser\">Carter was playing against the Republican Party<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koppel on Iran. He forgets that Carter was more worried about Reagan than about Khomeini.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}