{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Drishtikone","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone","author_name":"Desh Kapoor","author_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/author\/drishtikone\/","title":"When you wish becomes your nightmare!","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"0IFkm6zJRJ\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/10\/when-you-wish-becomes-your-nightmare\/\">When you wish becomes your nightmare!<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/10\/when-you-wish-becomes-your-nightmare\/embed\/#?secret=0IFkm6zJRJ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;When you wish becomes your nightmare!&#8221; &#8212; Drishtikone\" data-secret=\"0IFkm6zJRJ\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/* ]]> *\/\n<\/script>\n","description":"What if your closest friends run your country - whom you feel are the best suited to do so.... and they screw like no other team ever before? Well that is an interesting scenario. Here is a guy who actually happened to articulate such a wish and then lived to regret it!   \u201cI used to say to my father,\u201d he says, \u201c\u2009\u2018If my class at Yale ran this country, we would have no problems.\u2019 And the irony of my life is that they did.\u201d He pauses before invoking a 20th-century American foreign-policy who\u2019s who: \u201cThere was Cy Vance, Bill Scranton, Ted Beale, both Bundys, Bill and McGeorge \u2013 they all got behind that war in Vietnam and they pushed it as far as they could. And we lost a quarter of a million men. They were all idealistic, good, virtuous,\u201d says Auchincloss, \u201cthe finest men you could find. It was the most disillusioning thing that happened in my life.\u201d"}