{"id":178130,"date":"2019-02-27T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/27\/clearly-ending-a-69-year-old-war-is-clearly-a-disaster-of-unprecedented-proportions\/"},"modified":"2019-02-27T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T00:01:00","slug":"clearly-ending-a-69-year-old-war-is-clearly-a-disaster-of-unprecedented-proportions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/27\/clearly-ending-a-69-year-old-war-is-clearly-a-disaster-of-unprecedented-proportions\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearly, Ending a 69 Year Old War Is Clearly a Disaster of Unprecedented Proportions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no better example of a complete  and total intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the American foreign policy establishment in general, and liberal interventionism in particular than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/26\/opinion\/trump-kim-vietnam.html\">Susan Rice&#8217;s OP\/ED in the <i>New York Times<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that, in Susan Rice&#8217;s world, negotiations should only occur when the other side has capitulated completely, and putting the official end to a war that started 69 years ago makes one an enemy of peace.<\/p>\n<p>She notes that Kim sees his nuclear program as, &#8220;Vital to his regime\u2019s survival,&#8221; but seems to think, particularly as the US is fomenting a coup in Venezuela, that talking without further tightening of sanctions, which, incidentally, would likely trigger refugee flows into China, is somehow irresponsible.<\/p>\n<p>In the words of Bugs Bunny, &#8220;What a maroon.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no better example of a complete and total intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the American foreign policy establishment in general, and liberal interventionism in particular than Susan Rice&#8217;s OP\/ED in the New York Times. It appears that, in Susan Rice&#8217;s world, negotiations should only occur when the other side has capitulated completely, and &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":[543,545,394,406,403],"class_list":["post-178130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-dprk","tag-far-east","tag-foreign-relations","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178130"}],"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=178130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}