{"id":17831,"date":"2013-01-21T07:52:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=17831"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:52:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:52:43","slug":"war-in-mali-a-french-confidence-booster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/21\/war-in-mali-a-french-confidence-booster\/","title":{"rendered":"War in Mali &#8211; A French Confidence Booster?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/20\/sunday-review\/the-french-way-of-war.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&amp;seid=auto&amp;_r=0\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe French, who are so gloomy and pessimistic about the situation in the country and the economy, have at least one reason to be proud of what their country can achieve,\u201d Jean-David Levitte, the diplomatic adviser to former President Nicolas Sarkozy and the former ambassador to both the United States and the United Nations, told me. \u201cWe still have a foreign policy, a capacity to act beyond our borders, a capacity to make a difference.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jwcglaser\/status\/292805471797137408\">Matt Barganier<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times: \u201cThe French, who are so gloomy and pessimistic about the situation in the country and the economy, have at least one reason to be proud of what their country can achieve,\u201d Jean-David Levitte, the diplomatic adviser to former President Nicolas Sarkozy and the former ambassador to both the United States and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-17831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17832,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17831\/revisions\/17832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17831"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}