{"id":21919,"date":"2013-08-31T10:16:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T14:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=21919"},"modified":"2018-01-11T16:21:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T21:21:37","slug":"new-rule-of-thumb-for-military-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/08\/31\/new-rule-of-thumb-for-military-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"New rule of thumb for military adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsidethebeltway.com\/how-times-have-changed-france-not-england-joins-us-coalition-of-willing\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Joyner<\/a> suggests a new rule of thumb needs to be used:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Could anyone have imagined a decade ago a scenario when the United States would go to war with France by our side and England on the sidelines?<\/p>\n<p>I anticipate English muffins being renamed Freedom muffins any day now. And jokes about kippers eating surrender bulldogs or some such.<\/p>\n<p>More seriously, perhaps recent experience has provided us a rule of thumb: if Washington can not persuade both London and Paris of the advisability of military action, perhaps said action is inadvisable?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Joyner suggests a new rule of thumb needs to be used: Could anyone have imagined a decade ago a scenario when the United States would go to war with France by our side and England on the sidelines? I anticipate English muffins being renamed Freedom muffins any day now. And jokes about kippers eating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1117,370,5,13],"tags":[694],"class_list":["post-21919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-france","category-middle-east","category-military","category-usa","tag-syria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5Hx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21920,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21919\/revisions\/21920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}