{"id":186852,"date":"2013-09-16T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/09\/16\/idiot-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2013-09-16T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T01:48:00","slug":"idiot-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/09\/16\/idiot-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiot of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img683.imageshack.us\/img683\/5765\/narf.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"250\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/david-ignatius-can-obama-be-neo-machiavellian\/2013\/09\/13\/4aaac302-1c08-11e3-8685-5021e0c41964_story.html?hpid=z10\">David Ignatius<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">You can think this new American caution is potentially dangerous (as I do), but there\u2019s no arguing that it\u2019s deeply felt and (given the immense cost and almost nonexistent benefits of war in Iraq and Afghanistan) understandable. The question is what a president should do about it.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s dangerous to avoid costly wars with no benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, what the f%$# is the problem in Washington, DC?<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be a conventional wisdom that in order for us to be &#8220;centrist&#8221;, we have to bomb the sh%$ out of people just because, or just because the President made a stupid, &#8220;Red Line,&#8221; comment at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Just how small are their penises anyway?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i4.tinypic.com\/15qdr93.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2013\/09\/the-wisdom-of-center.html\">Atrios<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Ignatius: You can think this new American caution is potentially dangerous (as I do), but there\u2019s no arguing that it\u2019s deeply felt and (given the immense cost and almost nonexistent benefits of war in Iraq and Afghanistan) understandable. The question is what a president should do about it. It&#8217;s dangerous to avoid costly wars &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,986,982,979,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-middle-east","category-stupid","category-wanker","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186852"}],"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=186852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}