{"id":2064,"date":"2013-05-28T14:55:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T14:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2013-05-28T14:55:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T14:55:27","slug":"the-unraveling-of-sykes-picot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/05\/28\/the-unraveling-of-sykes-picot\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unraveling of Sykes-Picot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vladimir Lenin discovered the Sykes-Picot treaty in the czar\u2019s archives and published it, so the world might see what the Great War was truly all about. Sykes-Picot proved impossible to reconcile with Woodrow Wilson\u2019s declaration that he and the allies \u2013 the British, French, Italian, Russian and Japanese empires \u2013 were all fighting \u201cto make the world safe for democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Imperial hypocrisy stood naked and exposed.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson\u2019s idealistic Fourteen Points, announced early in 1918, were crafted to recapture the moral high ground. Yet it was out of the implementation of Sykes-Picot that so much Arab hostility and hatred would come \u2013 and from which today\u2019s Middle East emerged.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry130528-125057\">The Unraveling of Sykes-Picot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vladimir Lenin discovered the Sykes-Picot treaty in the czar\u2019s archives and published it, so the world might see what the Great War was truly all about. Sykes-Picot proved impossible to reconcile with Woodrow Wilson\u2019s declaration that he and the allies \u2013 the British, French, Italian, Russian and Japanese empires \u2013 were all fighting \u201cto make the world safe for democracy.\u201d Imperial hypocrisy stood naked and exposed. Wilson\u2019s idealistic Fourteen Points, announced early in 1918, were crafted to recapture the moral high ground. Yet it was out of the implementation of Sykes-Picot that so much Arab hostility and hatred would come \u2013 and from which today\u2019s Middle East emerged. via The Unraveling of Sykes-Picot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[920,970,1005,1019,1148,1688,1690],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-iraq","tag-jordan","tag-kuwait","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east","tag-sykes-picot","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}