{"id":640,"date":"2003-05-29T08:42:50","date_gmt":"2003-05-29T12:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=640"},"modified":"2003-05-29T08:42:50","modified_gmt":"2003-05-29T12:42:50","slug":"guns-before-boucher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=640","title":{"rendered":"Guns before Boucher"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know how the Battle of Jutland would have been reported in the NRYRB<\/span><\/a> — “The German North Sea Fleet: an exchange.” In a similar spirit, here’s an exchange about the news that Downing Street, not MI5, <\/span>made up the stuff about Weapons of Mass Destruction.<\/p>\n\n

“Of course it’s humiliating, but telling lies is one of the humiliations proper to a courtier. The real question is whether we want to be the vassals of the Americans or the Europeans. If the Americans rule the world, then it’s a bit silly sucking up to the people who don’t.”
\n“Oh, the Europeans. I’m a European. We’re civilised. They’re not.”
\n“But they stopped Kossovo and we didn’t.”
\n“Well, we helped.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Civilisation grows out of the barrel of a gun.<\/p>\n\n

Nothing in the above should be construed to mean that Texas is in fact civilised: only that a continent which couldn’t stop Srebrenica because our soldiers couldn’t see the point of dying is missing something important about civilisation, that Texans understand.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know how the Battle of Jutland would have been reported in the NRYRB <\/span>— “The German North Sea Fleet: an exchange.” In a similar spirit, here’s an exchange about the news that Downing Street, not MI5, <\/span>made up the … 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\/640"}],"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=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}