{"id":199904,"date":"2007-06-19T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/19\/whiskey-fire-what-ther-said\/"},"modified":"2007-06-19T11:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T16:49:00","slug":"whiskey-fire-what-ther-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/19\/whiskey-fire-what-ther-said\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiskey Fire: What Ther Said!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What Thers says:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/whiskeyfire.typepad.com\/whiskey_fire\/2007\/06\/buzzards_and_dr.html\">Buzzards and Dreadful Crows<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is all my balls. Ezra Klein is perfectly right to judge people writing on foreign policy primarily on their stances towards real world issues. A discussion of &#8220;underlying beliefs or theories&#8221; in this context is absurd, given the horror of the Iraq debacle. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">If your &#8220;underlying beliefs or theories&#8221; made you stick your dick in the blender, even &#8220;reluctantly,&#8221; and you haven&#8217;t thoroughly reassessed these concepts, I frankly don&#8217;t want to hear your advice about what to do with the weed whacker.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The essay is crazy. The guy thinks the primary debate about foreign policy is between &#8220;pacifists&#8221; and &#8220;militarists&#8221; &#8212; as if the primary reason anyone opposed the war in Iraq was from a position of committed pacifism. Well, maybe a small minority did, and good for them. But most of us opposed the war in Iraq because it was obviously a stupid fucking idea. The administration was clearly spouting bullshit about why it was necessary and how much it would cost in money and lives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Thers says: Buzzards and Dreadful Crows &#8230; This is all my balls. Ezra Klein is perfectly right to judge people writing on foreign policy primarily on their stances towards real world issues. A discussion of &#8220;underlying beliefs or theories&#8221; in this context is absurd, given the horror of the Iraq debacle. If your &#8220;underlying &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199904"}],"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=199904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}