{"id":535,"date":"2003-02-11T05:12:06","date_gmt":"2003-02-11T09:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=535"},"modified":"2003-02-11T05:12:06","modified_gmt":"2003-02-11T09:12:06","slug":"the-ghost-of-alden-pyle-naturalised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"The ghost of Alden Pyle (naturalised)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Sullivan is not a fool. He is, of course, an ideologue of the sort who can’t see creditable reasons for people to disagree with him about the stuff he really cares about. But can even he sincerely believe that “From any rational point of view, the end of the Saddam regime in Baghdad cannot be a huge blow to European interests. In fact, it’s pretty much a no-brainer, a necessary international police action to remove an obvious potential threat from terrorists and weapons of mass destruction”<\/span>
\nLet’s try that idea another way round: “From any rational point of view, the persistent presence of a large British occupation force in Iraq cannot be a huge blow to British interests.”<\/span> Still sounds like common sense, Andrew?
\nI’m beginning to think that it’s not just the experience of World Wars fought at home which cuts off Euope from America, but the fact that we actually know in our bones and blood why colonialism went out of fashion, while the Americans, still full of sentimental admiration for the Irish Catholics, are picking up the White Man’s Burden as if it weighed nothing at all.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew Sullivan is not a fool. He is, of course, an ideologue of the sort who can’t see creditable reasons for people to disagree with him about the stuff he really cares about. But can even he sincerely believe that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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\/535"}],"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=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}