{"id":401,"date":"2004-08-09T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-09T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/western-terminology\/"},"modified":"2004-08-09T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-09T18:54:00","slug":"western-terminology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/09\/western-terminology\/","title":{"rendered":"Western terminology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As far as I can tell, our track record of reaping long-term benefits from our support of repressive and authoritarian regimes is pretty dismal.  Yet, we keep on doing it, mostly for short-sighted reasons.  Saudi Arabia is the example that has been drawing increasing scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>The latest charming anecdote:  three reformers (Ali al-Demaini, Matruk al-Faleh and Abd Allah al-Hamed) have been arrested for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/E07FA9B9-9AD1-47E7-B005-D736EAE84FD5.htm\">calling for adopting a constitutional monarchy and using western terminology<\/a>,&#8221; among other heinous offences.  These are not exactly anarchists we&#8217;re talking about here &#8212; their role model is Jordan.  <\/p>\n<p>I wonder what Western terminology they were using?  &#8220;Radical, dude&#8221;?<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as I can tell, our track record of reaping long-term benefits from our support of repressive and authoritarian regimes is pretty dismal. Yet, we keep on doing it, mostly for short-sighted reasons. Saudi Arabia is the example that has been drawing increasing scrutiny. The latest charming anecdote: three reformers (Ali al-Demaini, Matruk al-Faleh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}