{"id":149,"date":"2003-12-18T16:48:17","date_gmt":"2003-12-18T23:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=149"},"modified":"2003-12-18T16:48:17","modified_gmt":"2003-12-18T23:48:17","slug":"fair-and-balanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Fair and Balanced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Den Beste has yet another excellent (and long) <a href=\"http:\/\/denbeste.nu\/cd_log_entries\/2003\/12\/Saddamstrial.shtml\">essay<\/a> on the current tranzi yammering for a non-Iraqi trial for SH.<\/p>\n<p>He explains the general tone of the anti-US camp &#8212; hysterical incoherent anger &#8212; as cognitive dissonance at having to defend the world&#8217;s worst people and regimes (the Taliban and SH) versus the US, which is far better by any conceivable standard than those &#8212; and many others.<\/p>\n<p>Just the other day a European friend expressed to me the concern that SH would not get a fair trial.  As Stephen Green (I think) said yesterday, SH&#8217;s guilt is not in question.  The really only fair trial would be one that revealed the true extent of his crimes.<\/p>\n<p>But no, to the Raving Looney Moonbats (TM), the only fair trial would be one where SH was acquitted &#8212; or rather, any situation that embarrassed the US, no matter its moral cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Den Beste has yet another excellent (and long) essay on the current tranzi yammering for a non-Iraqi trial for SH. He explains the general tone of the anti-US camp &#8212; hysterical incoherent anger &#8212; as cognitive dissonance at having to defend the world&#8217;s worst people and regimes (the Taliban and SH) versus the US, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=149\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fair and Balanced&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}