{"id":2066,"date":"2005-05-04T09:02:13","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T16:02:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-05-04T09:02:13","modified_gmt":"2005-05-04T16:02:13","slug":"post-smackdown-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/04\/post-smackdown-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Smackdown, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serbia-Montenegro Ambassador Ivan Vujacic has gone and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/04\/28\/AR2005042801608.html\">done it again<\/a>. Responding this time to the arrogant blowhard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A2950-2005Apr19.html\">Richard Holbrooke<\/a>, Vujacic does a splendid job of translating Holbrokese into English: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In other words, the aspirant members of the European Union need not strive to fulfill the requirements stemming from European values. Instead, they can simply trade in a part of their territory. This is poor advice. The evaluation of standards in Kosovo should be based on facts, not political wishful thinking, let alone blackmail.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, Holbrooke&#8217;s &#8220;advice&#8221; is actually a threat, and it isn&#8217;t &#8220;poor,&#8221; it&#8217;s criminal. But a diplomat can hardly say that out loud.<br \/>\nLast month I wondered whether Vujacic&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/comments.php?id=P1981_0_1_0_C\">reaction<\/a> to a <i>Post<\/i> editorial was a fluke, or the beginning of a new pattern. This second reaction suggests the latter &#8211; and not a moment too soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serbia-Montenegro Ambassador Ivan Vujacic has gone and done it again. Responding this time to the arrogant blowhard Richard Holbrooke, Vujacic does a splendid job of translating Holbrokese into English: &#8220;In other words, the aspirant members of the European Union need not strive to fulfill the requirements stemming from European values. Instead, they can simply trade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"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\/2066","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}