{"id":1027,"date":"2010-01-12T22:21:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T03:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2010\/01\/12\/landmines-obamas-ultimate-betrayal\/"},"modified":"2010-01-12T22:21:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T03:21:09","slug":"landmines-obamas-ultimate-betrayal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2010\/01\/12\/landmines-obamas-ultimate-betrayal\/","title":{"rendered":"Landmines: Obama&#8217;s ultimate betrayal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My personal breaking point, after months of jaw-dropping astonishment at Obama&#8217;s betrayals, was his refusal almost alone of the world&#8217;s leaders to ban child-killing landmines and cluster bombs. His state department announced this shameful policy on Thanksgiving eve, as if to hide it from public notice Obama is continuing Bush&#8217;s policy of refusing to honour an international antipersonnel landmine ban \u2013 the Ottawa treaty \u2013 signed by 158 nations. It&#8217;s so cruel and pointless. Mostly the victims are the rural poor, many of them children of the same age as the president&#8217;s two daughters. They die from shock or blood loss far from any hospital; and the survivors suffer amputations and blinding. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2009\/dec\/21\/obama-landmine-ban-betrayal\">Full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My personal breaking point, after months of jaw-dropping astonishment at Obama&#8217;s betrayals, was his refusal almost alone of the world&#8217;s leaders to ban child-killing landmines and cluster bombs. His state department announced this shameful policy on Thanksgiving eve, as if to hide it from public notice Obama is continuing Bush&#8217;s policy of refusing to honour &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2010\/01\/12\/landmines-obamas-ultimate-betrayal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Landmines: Obama&#8217;s ultimate betrayal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}