{"id":2883,"date":"2009-05-11T19:19:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T23:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2009-05-11T19:19:10","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T23:19:10","slug":"robert-kaplan-on-gwadar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/05\/11\/robert-kaplan-on-gwadar\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Kaplan on Gwadar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3376\/3523065141_d00c7939f4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Gwadar from the Air\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3376\/3523065141_d00c7939f4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the center of that spit of land above is Gwadar, Pakistan.\u00c2\u00a0 I spend a lot of time with my head pressed against the glass while flying, and see lots of places I&#8217;d like to go.\u00c2\u00a0 But few sights have grabbed me as as much as that view, and Robert Kaplan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200905\/kaplan-pakistan\">new article in the Atlantic<\/a> does nothing but increase my desire to go to Gwadar:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whether Gwadar becomes a new silk-route nexus or not is tied to Pakistan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own struggle against becoming a failed state. Pakistan, with its \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Islamic\u00e2\u20ac\u009d nuclear bomb, Taliban- and al-Qaeda-infested northwestern borderlands, dysfunctional cities, and territorially based ethnic groups for whom Islam could never provide adequate glue, is commonly referred to as the most dangerous country in the world, a nuclear Yugoslavia-in-the-making. And so Gwadar is a litmus test, not just for roads and energy routes but for the stability of the entire Arabian Sea region.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the center of that spit of land above is Gwadar, Pakistan.\u00c2\u00a0 I spend a lot of time with my head pressed against the glass while flying, and see lots of places I&#8217;d like to go.\u00c2\u00a0 But few sights have grabbed me as as much as that view, and Robert Kaplan&#8217;s new article in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,5],"tags":[283,281,96,282],"class_list":["post-2883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-policy","category-travel","tag-baluchistan","tag-gwardar","tag-pakistan","tag-robert-kaplan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2885,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions\/2885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}