{"id":2957,"date":"2002-10-19T16:55:58","date_gmt":"2002-10-19T16:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=356"},"modified":"2002-10-19T16:55:58","modified_gmt":"2002-10-19T16:55:58","slug":"william-burton-and-armed-liberal-disagree-film-at-1100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2957","title":{"rendered":"WILLIAM BURTON AND ARMED LIBERAL DISAGREE!! FILM AT 11:00"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m stunned to see that William Burton and I disagree on something of substance. I’m actually going to spend the whole time at the party tonight drinking solemnly and thinking about this…
\n…but for now, I think he’s waaaay off base (sports pun!!) in this<\/a> post in which he thinks that N. Korea is a bigger priority than the Middle East. I’m not sure if he’s just so torqued at the Bushies (yes, they are insanely corrupt<\/a>) that he’s just being disagreeable…but here’s the deal:
\nThe North Koreans probably have or will shortly have a Bomb. Pakistan has a Bomb. India has a Bomb. South Africa may well have a Bomb (or that could have been an Israeli bomb). There are too damn many Bombs out there for comfort (as I’ve noted<\/a>). But at this point, I don’t see the pattern of behavior (in the last 40 years) that would lead me to believe that North Korea would use their bombs belligerently (as opposed to, maybe selling them to a terrorist organization). Without the backing of China, North Korea is pretty much a speed bump militarily (a big one, to be sure, and if I lived within 100 miles of the DMZ, I’d certainly have a different position).
\nThe Islamists, OTOH, have established a pattern of aggressive action (c.f. Manhattan, Bali, East Timor, etc.), and while Saddam isn’t an Islamist, he sure is moving to their side as fast as his polished brogans will take him.
\nSo this North Korea thing needs to be dealt with, and to be honest I may have to give this one to Bush…the only reason I can imagine for them to go public with this now is because they are worried that they’re on the dance card headed by Saddam right now.
\nBut I wouldn’t be getting all panicky about it, Bill.
\nWhen the alcohol wears off tomorrow, I’ll revisit and see if I still feel this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m stunned to see that William Burton and I disagree on something of substance. I’m actually going to spend the whole time at the party tonight drinking solemnly and thinking about this… …but for now, I think he’s waaaay off base (sports pun!!) in this post in which he thinks that N. Korea is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}