{"id":186018,"date":"2014-06-12T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T02:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/06\/12\/eric-arthur-blair-is-spinning-in-his-grave-again\/"},"modified":"2014-06-12T21:27:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T02:27:00","slug":"eric-arthur-blair-is-spinning-in-his-grave-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/06\/12\/eric-arthur-blair-is-spinning-in-his-grave-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Arthur Blair is Spinning in His Grave, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Emptywheel, Jim White shows us a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emptywheel.net\/2014\/06\/11\/us-foreign-policy-in-a-nutshell\/\">bit of cognitive dissonance that will make your head spin<\/a> on the &#8220;World&#8221; section of the <i>New York Times<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/DACtpSM.jpg\" width=\"470\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, first, we, (and the House of Saud) arm rebels in Syria, then they move into, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jun\/11\/mosul-isis-gunmen-middle-east-states\">take over \u00bc of Iraq<\/a>, and take more of our weapons, and the very serious people think that we need to send them <b>more<\/b> weapons.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve always been at war with Eastasia.<\/p>\n<p>(<i>On Edit<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>And Obama is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Foreign-Policy\/2014\/0612\/Obama-hints-at-military-action-in-Iraq.-Are-airstrikes-the-only-option-video\">looking at air strikes to support the government<\/a>.  Obama has gone the full Nixon\/Vietnamization route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Emptywheel, Jim White shows us a bit of cognitive dissonance that will make your head spin on the &#8220;World&#8221; section of the New York Times: Seriously, first, we, (and the House of Saud) arm rebels in Syria, then they move into, and take over \u00bc of Iraq, and take more of our weapons, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[981,1063,986,982,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-iraq","category-middle-east","category-stupid","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186018"}],"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=186018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}