{"id":477,"date":"2002-12-04T20:10:15","date_gmt":"2002-12-05T00:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=477"},"modified":"2002-12-04T20:10:15","modified_gmt":"2002-12-05T00:10:15","slug":"more-nutters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"more nutters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been browsing the warhard sites, and as usual end up wondering how they can be writing from or about the same planet as I inhabit. <A href=\"http:\/\/www.strategypage.com\/strategypolitics\/articles\/20021128.asp\">This<\/a> in particular caught my eye, partly because of its hysterical anti-Europeanism, so that the writer asserts almost simultaneously that European govenements need take no account of the views of their electorates, and that Gerhard Schr&ouml;der is a very wicked man for appealing to his electorate&#8217;s anti-Americanism.<\/p>\n\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<span class=\"loony\">Europeans, especially the <span class=\"caps\">EU, <\/span>are quite similar to American Democrats here (with greater aversion to using force), but are noisier and more righteous about it as they don&#8217;t have to face American voters or, on the Continent, even their own due to the incestuous nature of their parties and parliamentary systems. This happy freedom from responsibility permits them to act almost entirely for domestic advantage. They need only minimize terrorist use of their countries as sanctuaries to satisfy security requirements, and can otherwise grandstand as desired.<br \/>\nEurope&#8217;s peril arises from different issues. They do not seem to have noticed that America&#8217;s new <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been browsing the warhard sites, and as usual end up wondering how they can be writing from or about the same planet as I inhabit. This in particular caught my eye, partly because of its hysterical anti-Europeanism, so &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=477\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=477\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}