{"id":1509,"date":"2016-04-08T18:53:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T18:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2016-04-08T19:02:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T19:02:20","slug":"foreign-aid-of-a-much-more-prolific-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1509","title":{"rendered":"foreign aid… of a much more prolific kind"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last couple days, I’ve been reading an extremely in-depth piece in the Atlantic<\/em> about President Obama’s foreign policy.\u00a0 The policy comes across as being tremendously sophisticated and just as nuanced.\u00a0 At one point, Obama is quoted as saying:\u00a0 “I also believe that the world is a tough, complicated, messy, mean place, and full of hardship and tragedy.”<\/strong>\u00a0 That’s, I believe, a quite valid assessment.\u00a0 Obama’s actions, on the international stage, have often been a combination of protecting American interests, while also weaving in a modicum of humanitarian aid — just because, simply, the latter is: the right thing to do.\u00a0 Where our administration would be different, is that we would lead with a whole lot<\/em> of humanitarian aid — which I believe would be in our best interest, spiritually.\u00a0 There are currently about 24,000 people starving to death worldwide every day; over 1 billion people have no access to clean drinking water; over 1 billion people are living in deplorable slum conditions; one child dies of malaria every 30 seconds in Africa…\u00a0 The world stands on the brink of catastrophic climate change; the seas are becoming dangerously depleted and polluted… Our foreign policy would significantly spin around each of these issues.\u00a0 Simply because the gospel message demands nothing less of us.\u00a0 For more on my foreign policy, see…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last couple days, I’ve been reading an extremely in-depth piece in the Atlantic about President Obama’s foreign policy.\u00a0 The policy comes across as being tremendously sophisticated and just as nuanced.\u00a0 At one point, Obama is quoted as saying:\u00a0 “I …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1513,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/1513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}