{"id":1020621,"date":"2023-03-10T06:45:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T06:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=276335"},"modified":"2023-03-10T06:45:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T06:45:55","slug":"how-washington-lost-its-moral-compass-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/10\/how-washington-lost-its-moral-compass-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"How Washington Lost Its Moral Compass in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who remembers anymore that, in 2003, we were Vladimir Putin?\u00a0Today, our cable and social-media news feeds are blanketed with denunciations of the president of the Russian Federation for his lawless and brutal invasion of Ukraine. When Secretary of State Antony Blinken met briefly with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in New Delhi on March 2nd,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/10\/how-washington-lost-its-moral-compass-in-iraq\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/10\/how-washington-lost-its-moral-compass-in-iraq\/\">How Washington Lost Its Moral Compass in Iraq<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/10\/how-washington-lost-its-moral-compass-in-iraq\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who remembers anymore that, in 2003, we were Vladimir Putin?\u00a0Today, our cable and social-media news feeds are blanketed with denunciations of the president of the Russian Federation for his lawless and brutal invasion of Ukraine. When Secretary of Stat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020622,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020621\/revisions\/1020622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}