{"id":5622,"date":"2011-03-21T19:52:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T19:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=5622"},"modified":"2011-03-21T19:52:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T19:52:41","slug":"no-perfect-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/no-perfect-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"No perfect solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/262612\/we-would-lose-arms-race-whole-world-jim-manzi\">We Would Lose an Arms Race with the Whole World<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What seems so striking to me, though, from the perspective of being in Paris and London, is the default belief among so many in the U.S. that America needs to \u201cbe a leader\u201d on this. I think that over time, whatever our tactical decision with respect to this particular crisis, we need very much not to be a leader in this sense. We can\u2019t afford it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On a more prosaic note, it seems to me that:<\/p>\n<p>1) If the USA and the West did <i>not<\/i> act they would be damned<\/p>\n<p>2) As the USA and the West did <i>act<\/i>, they will be damned<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5hfOj_osnV0e8iIN2ArBBlCB4UT8Q?docId=CNG.a807bd69f3debaa7a6b4ca2383f9500b.851\">Arab League&#8217;s<\/a> equivocation on the matter shows that the rest of the world, and the Arab world and Africa, are operating to generate the best &#8220;optics&#8221; for their position. Support air strikes, but criticize their implementation.<\/p>\n<p>All I can do at this point is sigh. Will nothing but explicit national bankruptcy check our hubris?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Would Lose an Arms Race with the Whole World: What seems so striking to me, though, from the perspective of being in Paris and London, is the default belief among so many in the U.S. that America needs to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/no-perfect-solution\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[729],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5624,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions\/5624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}