{"id":4026,"date":"2011-02-01T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=4026"},"modified":"2011-01-30T20:08:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T04:08:55","slug":"the-twelve-year-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=4026","title":{"rendered":"The Twelve Year Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With revolution sweeping through the Arab world dictators supported by the US are falling to the people in the street.\u00a0 We have tended to support stability over freedom and as a result we get neither.\u00a0 Marcos in the Philippines, The Shah in Iran and Batista in Cuba are examples.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a simple idea.\u00a0 The US should not support anybody who stays in power more than twelve years.\u00a0 If someone stays in power more than that they get corrupt or start to feel omnipotent.\u00a0 Examples:\u00a0 see above plus Castro in Cuba, Hugo Chavez and Mugabe in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>If we make it clear we expect changes of leadership if countries want our trade, aid and military support, perhaps we can, in the margin, get a few more countries to have governments that do what is best for their citizens.<\/p>\n<p>BTW I predict that Jordan will be the next one to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With revolution sweeping through the Arab world dictators supported by the US are falling to the people in the street.\u00a0 We have tended to support stability over freedom and as a result we get neither.\u00a0 Marcos in the Philippines, The Shah in Iran and Batista in Cuba are examples. Here is a simple idea.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-12W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4031,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions\/4031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}