{"id":12761,"date":"2013-10-29T17:19:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T16:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=12761"},"modified":"2013-10-29T17:32:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T16:32:21","slug":"do-we-need-an-african-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=12761","title":{"rendered":"Do we need an African NATO?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My son Richard Darlington thinks so, as he explains in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/politics\/2013\/10\/do-we-need-african-nato\">this cogent article<\/a>\u00a0for the &#8220;New Statesman&#8221;.\u00a0Not surprisingly I&#8217;m sure, I agreed with him.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m not just saying this because he is my son and very well informed on international matters. Six years ago, I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=722\">a posting on this blog<\/a> about the case for what is sometimes called &#8220;liberal interventionism&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son Richard Darlington thinks so, as he explains in this cogent article\u00a0for the &#8220;New Statesman&#8221;.\u00a0Not surprisingly I&#8217;m sure, I agreed with him. But I&#8217;m not just saying this because he is my son and very well informed on international matters. Six years ago, I wrote a posting on this blog about the case for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12761"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12765,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12761\/revisions\/12765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}