{"id":8487,"date":"2011-03-27T10:17:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T14:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8487"},"modified":"2011-03-27T10:17:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T14:17:37","slug":"qotd-one-minute-imperialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/03\/27\/qotd-one-minute-imperialism\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: One-minute Imperialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>It is the height of recklessness, a kind of blas\u00e9 barbarism, to start a war without knowing what the war is for. We are witnessing the transformation of Libya into a giant laboratory for a zany, unpredictable experiment to see what happens when you mix Tomahawk missiles with a volatile Arab uprising. It makes even the ill-considered debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan look like the height of rationality in comparison.<\/p>\n<p>The made-up nature of the war, its speedy and brainless cobbling together by Western leaders keen to make a quick point by firing a few hundred missiles at Gaddafi, explains why the so-called Western alliance is so spectacularly flimsy. This must be the most shortlived alliance in human history. It lasted about 24 hours &mdash; at a push 36 hours &mdash; before Washington announced that it would \u2018tone down\u2019 its involvement and agitate for NATO to take over. Perhaps keen to satisfy the needs of the 24-hour rolling news agenda, America has just overseen the world\u2019s first-ever outburst of 24-hour imperialism.<\/p>\n<p>Brendan O&#8217;Neill, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/index.php\/site\/article\/10318\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The most shortlived alliance in human history&#8221;, <em>Spiked!<\/em><\/a>, 2011-03-22<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the height of recklessness, a kind of blas\u00e9 barbarism, to start a war without knowing what the war is for. We are witnessing the transformation of Libya into a giant laboratory for a zany, unpredictable experiment to see what happens when you mix Tomahawk missiles with a volatile Arab uprising. It makes even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[362,5,41],"tags":[145,158,687,220,30],"class_list":["post-8487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-military","category-quotations","tag-airforce","tag-barackobama","tag-libya","tag-nato","tag-navy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2cT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487","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=8487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8488,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions\/8488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}