{"id":13183,"date":"2017-01-31T09:33:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T14:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=13183"},"modified":"2017-01-31T09:35:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T14:35:50","slug":"quid-pro-quo-something-given-or-received-for-something-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/13183","title":{"rendered":"Quid Pro Quo: Something Given or Received for Something Else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/constitution\/articlei\">US Constitution: Article I Section 9<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nations whose citizens have committed terrorism against the United States in modern times:<br \/>\n<strong style=\"color: red;\">Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nations targeted by Trump\u2019s ban:<br \/>\n<strong style=\"color: green;\">Syria, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Libya<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nations with whom Trump has business interests:<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: red;\">Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates<\/strong>, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And a quick bit of history. Nations whose governments have been toppled \/ destabilized with US interference \/ assistance:<\/p>\n<p>Korea (1945), <strong style=\"color: green;\">Syria (1949)<\/strong>, <strong style=\"color: green;\">Iran (1953)<\/strong>, Guatemala (1954), Congo (1960), Dominican Republic (1961), South Vietnam (1963), Brazil (1964), Chile (1973), Afghanistan (1979-1989), Nicaragua (1981-1989), Panama (1989), Haiti (1991), <strong style=\"color: green;\">Somalia (1993)<\/strong>, <strong style=\"color: green;\">Iraq (1994-1996)<\/strong>, Afghanistan (2001), <strong style=\"color: green;\">Iraq (2003)<\/strong>, Haiti (2004), <strong style=\"color: green;\">Somalia (2007)<\/strong>, <strong style=\"color: green;\">Syria (2005-2015)<\/strong>, <strong style=\"color: green;\">Lybia (2011)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8211; George Santayana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Constitution: Article I Section 9 \u201cNo Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-3qD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}