{"id":248,"date":"2004-05-31T16:12:40","date_gmt":"2004-05-31T23:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=248"},"modified":"2004-05-31T16:12:40","modified_gmt":"2004-05-31T23:12:40","slug":"isolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Isolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/pejmanesque.com\">Pejman<\/a> comes an entertaining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/extra\/?id=110005146\">article<\/a> about the benefits of a more isolationist US:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A U.S. withdrawal from the Middle East will cause chaos, of course. Then again, a U.S. intervention in the Middle East has caused chaos already. And, during those periods of history when the U.S. was neither intervening in nor withdrawing from the Middle East, there was . . . chaos. The situation is akin to the famous complaint women have against men: failure to acknowledge that not every problem can be fixed. Sometimes the best thing is just a little sympathy. America had everyone&#8217;s sympathy after the World Trade towers were attacked. We can get that sympathy back if we limit our foreign policy objectives to whining.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Pejman comes an entertaining article about the benefits of a more isolationist US: A U.S. withdrawal from the Middle East will cause chaos, of course. Then again, a U.S. intervention in the Middle East has caused chaos already. And, during those periods of history when the U.S. was neither intervening in nor withdrawing from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=248\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Isolate&#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-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","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=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}