{"id":59,"date":"2009-05-02T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandbox.blog-city.com\/he_walks_with_the_islamists_talks_to_the_islamists.htm"},"modified":"2009-05-02T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T17:04:00","slug":"he-walks-with-the-islamists-talks-with-the-islamists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/2009\/05\/he-walks-with-the-islamists-talks-with-the-islamists\/","title":{"rendered":"He walks with the Islamists, talks with the Islamists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>If I consulted with quadrupeds<br \/>\nThink what fun we\u2019d have asking over crocodiles for tea!<br \/>\nOr maybe lunch with two or three lions, walruses and sea lions<br \/>\nWhat a lovely place the world would be!<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">\u2014Bobby Darin, lyrics from <em>Talk to the Animals <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn2.google.com\/images?q=tbn:po0Gql_l-nsEuM:http:\/\/wingless.aoriginality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/2009122141911576734_51.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" \/>You know things are headed downhill fast when Alastair Crooke warrants a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/02\/world\/middleeast\/02crooke.html?_r=2&amp;ref=world\" target=\"_blank\">profile<\/a> in the <em>New York Times<\/em>, for his long-term project of &#8220;engaging&#8221; Hamas and Hezbollah. The profile flags his importance in these words: &#8220;Talking to Islamists is the new order of the day in Washington and London. The Obama administration wants a dialogue with Iran, and the British Foreign Office has decided to reopen diplomatic contacts with Hezbollah, the Shiite militant group.&#8221; And so on.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, I debated Crooke at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. This seems like a perfect opportunity to point to my remarks: <a href=\"http:\/\/xrl.us\/crooke\">here<\/a>. The CSIS summary of my remarks and his: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csis.org\/media\/csis\/events\/political_islam_problem.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I consulted with quadrupeds Think what fun we\u2019d have asking over crocodiles for tea! Or maybe lunch with two or three lions, walruses and sea lions What a lovely place the world would be! \u2014Bobby Darin, lyrics from Talk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/2009\/05\/he-walks-with-the-islamists-talks-with-the-islamists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[101127,2252],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alastair-crooke","tag-islamism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}