{"id":2637,"date":"2006-11-05T09:24:13","date_gmt":"2006-11-05T09:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2637"},"modified":"2006-11-05T09:24:13","modified_gmt":"2006-11-05T09:24:13","slug":"the_prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2637","title":{"rendered":"The Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/11\/02\/AR2006110201380.html?referrer=emailarticle\">Reviewed by David Ignatius<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>When historians search for a paradigmatic figure who embodied America&#8217;s old, pre-9\/11 relationship with the Arab world, an obvious candidate will be Saudi Arabia&#8217;s swaggering ambassador to Washington from 1983 to 2005, Prince Bandar bin Sultan. He was the Gatsby of foreign affairs: entertaining Washington&#8217;s elite at his mansion overlooking the Potomac; exchanging secret favors with a string of presidents from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush; lobbying for Saudi weapons purchases so effectively that he trounced even AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby group; operating as a deniable arm of the CIA in covert operations around the world.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by David Ignatius: When historians search for a paradigmatic figure who embodied America&#8217;s old, pre-9\/11 relationship with the Arab world, an obvious candidate will be Saudi Arabia&#8217;s swaggering ambassador to Washington from 1983 to 2005, Prince Bandar bin Sultan. He was the Gatsby of foreign affairs: entertaining Washington&#8217;s elite at his mansion overlooking the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,21,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}