{"id":175786,"date":"2020-11-29T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/29\/quote-of-the-day-3\/"},"modified":"2020-11-29T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T01:11:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/29\/quote-of-the-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">While I&#8217;m thinking about the psychology of people, it has occurred to me that there is a generation of people in DC (politics, media, associated) who were youngish and had their peak formative moment when they helped to kill a million people in Iraq.  What a high that must have been (those of us who paid a lot of attention then know just how high out of their gourds they all were on  their righteous crusade).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\"> Imagine being 25 and convincing yourself that you saved the world by helping to blow the shit out of so many people.  Habit forming high. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\"> Those chemicals start hitting their brains again every time the opportunity to blow up some other country presents itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">     Every &#8220;humanitarian intervention&#8221; is just another big line of coke.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2020\/11\/dexters.html\">Atrios<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the most coherent explanation of what drives the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liberal_internationalism\">Liberal Interventionist<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>They do this, despite <b>always<\/b> failing, because it gets their rocks off. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a twisted juxtaposition of a psychotic need for a dopamine rush, and careerism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m thinking about the psychology of people, it has occurred to me that there is a generation of people in DC (politics, media, associated) who were youngish and had their peak formative moment when they helped to kill a million people in Iraq. What a high that must have been (those of us who &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,394,464,589,414],"class_list":["post-175786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-evil","tag-foreign-relations","tag-good-writing","tag-insane","tag-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}