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Bromide<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Bromide<\/b>\u00a0in literary usage means a phrase, clich\u00e9, or\u00a0platitude<\/a>\u00a0that is\u00a0trite<\/a>\u00a0or unoriginal. It can be intended to soothe or placate; it can suggest insincerity or a lack of originality in the speaker. When\u00a0hypostatized<\/a> and embodied, in which the concept becomes a person, bromide can mean a commonplace or tiresome person, a bore.\u00a0[Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noted in “Belligerents in the Persian Gulf are trying something new: diplomacy<\/em><\/a>,” David Ignatius, WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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The gulf countries are more open to talks with Iran and its proxies partly because they\u2019ve lost some of their former confidence in the United States as a reliable military protector. That\u2019s one cost of President Trump\u2019s\u00a0erratic policy<\/a>, in which he alternates tweets about bombing Iran with bromides about meeting with Iranian leaders. Confused gulf countries increasingly are hedging their bets, through diplomacy and greater reliance on Russia and China.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bromide: Bromide\u00a0in literary usage means a phrase, clich\u00e9, or\u00a0platitude\u00a0that is\u00a0trite\u00a0or unoriginal. It can be intended to soothe or placate; it can suggest insincerity or a lack of originality in the speaker. When\u00a0hypostatized and embodied, in which the concept becomes a person, bromide can mean a commonplace or tiresome person, a \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26860,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26859\/revisions\/26860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}