{"id":3758,"date":"2007-10-08T13:29:59","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T20:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/08\/kaplan-on-asia-dem-craz-ay-asians-is-a-commin\/"},"modified":"2007-10-08T13:29:59","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T20:29:59","slug":"kaplan-on-asia-%e2%80%9cdem-craz-ay-asians-is-a-commin%e2%80%99%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3758","title":{"rendered":"Kaplan on Asia: \u201cDem Craz-ay Asians is a Commin\u2019!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'>\n<p>Dr. Anonymous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.passtheroti.com\/?p=559\">blogs<\/a> about an article that Robert Kaplan wrote for the <em>Times<\/em> about Asian and its political future:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Robert Kaplan, a writer for <em>the Atlantic Monthly<\/em>, considers American imperialist concerns in Asia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/21\/opinion\/21kaplan.html?_r=1&amp;hp=&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;oref=slogin&amp;adxnnlx=1190425632-fzA8MCqgxctr\/\/UIxtUI+w\" >in <em>the Times<\/em><\/a>. The article is anything but pacific.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s my favorite part:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Asia\u2019s military-economic vigor is the product of united political, economic and military elites<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Aside from the grossly sweeping nature of the statement, it may not even be very accurate, as far as grossly sweeping statements go. He wrote this in the weeks after: the Japanese prime minister resigned; Nepal\u2019s Maoists quit the government; Pakistan is in the throws of yet another change of rule; Sri Lanka is in the middle of the civil war that does not end; Burma\u2019s government is facing perhaps the most serious challenge to its rule since 1988, and India\u2019s Left has threatened to pull the rug out from under the ruling coalition because of a proposed nuclear deal with the U.S.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/blogandbullet?a=PtV06SPe\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/blogandbullet?i=PtV06SPe\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/blogandbullet?a=YZE7unwX\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/blogandbullet?i=YZE7unwX\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/blogandbullet?a=5HP9H3gd\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/blogandbullet?i=5HP9H3gd\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/blogandbullet?a=3zW0AR2l\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/blogandbullet?i=3zW0AR2l\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Anonymous blogs about an article that Robert Kaplan wrote for the Times about Asian and its political future:<br \/>\nRobert Kaplan, a writer for the Atlantic Monthly, considers American imperialist concerns in Asia in the Times. The article is anything but pacific.<br \/>\nHere\u2019s my favorite part:<br \/>\nAsia\u2019s military-economic vigor is the product of united political, economic and military [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3758\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}