{"id":11926,"date":"2018-08-18T05:29:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T05:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11926"},"modified":"2018-08-18T05:29:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T05:29:03","slug":"opinion-exploiting-the-end-of-the-american-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11926","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Exploiting the end of the American era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The first major global conflict of the 21st century broke out in the Middle East. It didn&#8217;t involve Iran. ISIS wasn&#8217;t a factor. Surprisingly, even Israel found itself on the sidelines. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The initial volley of shots in the battle for the post-US period came from Saudi Arabia. The power struggle was caused by Washington&#8217;s withdrawal from the world. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">This week has seen two incidents which suggest the Kingdom&#8217;s conduct is less constrained by Western ways. First, Canada&#8217;s ambassador had a fairly common critique following the detention of a women&#8217;s rights activist.  Instead of issuing their own statement, Riyadh simply cut off ties. Second, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/09\/middleeast\/yemen-bus-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen <\/a>that killed dozens of children. Instead of apologizing, the Saudis defended the airstrike, calling it a legitimate military operation. The message seems to be: we no longer feel the need to conform to external expectations.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first major global conflict of the 21st century broke out in the Middle East. It didn&#8217;t involve Iran. ISIS wasn&#8217;t a factor. Surprisingly, even Israel found itself on the sidelines. The initial volley of shots in the battle for the post-US period came from Saudi Arabia. The power struggle was caused by Washington&#8217;s withdrawal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}