Some have characterized me of being “right-wing and pro-war” on the basis of the contents of this blog. A brief clarification:<\/p>\n
I am pro-the war against fundamentalist Islam, in which the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq have been important victories — and have brought immeasurable benefits to the people of those countries. I’ll form my own opinion about any other war when it comes.<\/p>\n
As for political opinion, I am rather more libertarian than anything else — I favour as small a government as possible. I am all in favor of the classical liberal values of individual freedom and human rights, but utterly condemn any system that says that government — or any elite — knows better than the individual how to regulate the individual’s affairs.<\/p>\n
That said, I am a great admirer of the theory behind the American poltical system — and cheer whenever it works as it is supposed to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some have characterized me of being “right-wing and pro-war” on the basis of the contents of this blog. A brief clarification: I am pro-the war against fundamentalist Islam, in which the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq have been important victories — and have brought immeasurable benefits to the people of those countries. I’ll form my … Continue reading “My politics”<\/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-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}