{"id":4042,"date":"2013-01-23T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-14T18:59:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T16:59:57","slug":"epalestine-wow-grand-waffle-in-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2013\/01\/epalestine-wow-grand-waffle-in-middle\/","title":{"rendered":"WOW!! Grand Waffle in the Middle East &#8212; By Chas Freeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Lobe Log<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">January 17th, 2013<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&#8220;Amb. Chas Freeman (ret.) spoke to a Middle East Policy Council (MEPC) forum on U.S.  Grand Strategy \u2014 or, in his words &#8220;Grand Waffle&#8221; \u2014 in the Middle East on Capitol Hill  yesterday and has graciously agreed to have the text posted on Lobe Log. Readers of the  blog are already well acquainted with Freeman, a victim for 4 years, when he was appointed  to chair the National Intelligence Council (NIC), of a McCarthyite-like campaign driven by  many of the same neo-conservatives and Israel lobby activists opposed to Chuck Hagel\u2019s  nomination.&#8221;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Grand Waffle in the Middle East<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">By Chas Freeman<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lobelog.com\/grand-waffle-in-the-middle-east\/\"><span style=\"color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">  <u>http:\/\/www.lobelog.com\/grand-waffle-in-the-middle-east\/<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Whoa, was that an American train that just ran into Israel?,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Sam<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">ePalestine Blog:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.com\/\"><span style=\"color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><u>http:\/\/www.epalestine.com<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Everything about this list:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine\"><span style=\"color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">  <u>http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">To unsubscribe, send mail to:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">epalestine-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">To subscribe, send mail to:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">epalestine-subscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lobe Log January 17th, 2013 &#8220;Amb. Chas Freeman (ret.) spoke to a Middle East Policy Council (MEPC) forum on U.S. Grand Strategy \u2014 or, in his words &#8220;Grand Waffle&#8221; \u2014 in the Middle East on Capitol Hill yesterday and has graciously agreed to have the text posted on Lobe Log. Readers of the blog are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[422,837,40,13],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-4042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-chas-freeman","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-un"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4042"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}