{"id":181506,"date":"2016-06-06T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/06\/06\/insanity-is-defined-as-doing-the-same-thing-over-and-over-again-and-expecting-different-results\/"},"modified":"2016-06-06T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T01:52:00","slug":"insanity-is-defined-as-doing-the-same-thing-over-and-over-again-and-expecting-different-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/06\/06\/insanity-is-defined-as-doing-the-same-thing-over-and-over-again-and-expecting-different-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Insanity Is Defined as Doing the Same Thing over and over Again and Expecting Different Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama has decided that terrorizing the population of Yemen with drones, and allowing the House of Saud to indiscriminately bomb civilians is a successful antiterrorism strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The net effect has been to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emptywheel.net\/2016\/06\/06\/obamas-successful-counterterrorism-approach-in-yemen-has-quadrupled-membership-in-aqap\/\">quadrupling the size of al Qaeda in Yemen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">On September 10, 2014, President Obama gave a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2014\/09\/10\/statement-president-isil-1\">speech<\/a> advocating for the same kind of approach to counterterrorism against  ISIL his Administration had been using with Yemen (and Somalia).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Today, the Soufan Group wrote up an alarming detail from the State  Department Country Report on Terrorism for last year: AQAP has  quadrupled in size since Obama\u2019s speech.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is what happens you have a failed policy, and you stick with the conventional wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>It is a failure of intellect.<\/p>\n<p>It is a failure of imagination.<\/p>\n<p>It is an unalloyed failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama has decided that terrorizing the population of Yemen with drones, and allowing the House of Saud to indiscriminately bomb civilians is a successful antiterrorism strategy. The net effect has been to quadrupling the size of al Qaeda in Yemen: On September 10, 2014, President Obama gave a speech advocating for the same kind &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,969,986,982,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-evil","category-middle-east","category-stupid","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181506"}],"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=181506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}