{"id":25,"date":"2003-02-12T20:17:24","date_gmt":"2003-02-12T20:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:00","slug":"afterdinner_thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"After-Dinner Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just had the Valentines Dinner From Hell (not really, actually a wonderful dinner with my SO), and was confronted by bad dating habits (check out Armed Liberal for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armedliberal.com\/archives\/000570.html#000570\" target=\"browser\">my comments and recommendations on middle-aged dating<\/a>) as well as some points in opposition to the \u2018Impending War on Iraq\u2019 (we ought to just make that name official) that actually got me to think a bit, and I wanted to throw a few things out for consideration. The points are:<\/p>\n<p>1)    We can\u2019t invade Iraq because we haven\u2019t dealt with Al Qaeda; and<br \/>\n2)    We can\u2019t invade Iraq because we haven\u2019t dealt with the Palestinian-Israeli conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>Those are two of the more typical antiwar arguments that I hear from people who think more deeply about the subject than \u201cwar is bad\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>And last night I just realized that they are both flat wrong.<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t deal with Al Qaeda as long as there are states that control territory, the issuance of identification, and the import and export of weapons which actively support Al Qaeda or tacitly support them through inaction.<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t deal with the Palestinian\u2019s unwillingness to make a final, binding, real, two-state deal with Israel as long as there are states that actively encourage Palestinian rage and violence with funds and weapons.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m thinking that both of these problems are essentially unsolvable as long as they are really \u2018proxy\u2019 conflicts with state actors. <\/p>\n<p>What do you folks think?<\/p>\n<p><i>(fixed spelling of &#8216;Al-Qaeda&#8217; per Inkgrrl&#8217;s comment)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had the Valentines Dinner From Hell (not really, actually a wonderful dinner with my SO), and was confronted by bad dating habits (check out Armed Liberal for my comments and recommendations on middle-aged dating) as well as some points in opposition to the \u2018Impending War on Iraq\u2019 (we ought to just make that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}