{"id":304,"date":"2004-01-09T15:27:12","date_gmt":"2004-01-09T15:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:27","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:27","slug":"this_is_about_sex_isnt_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"This Is About Sex, Isn’t It…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at Michael Totten’s, he has a great post<\/a> (which should be read in conjunction with the Benny Morris interview<\/a> linked by Roger Simon<\/a>) about what war is.<\/p>\n

One of his commenters<\/a>, Kimmitt, made this comment:<\/p>\n

‘And some Americans get an awful lot of wood from the idea that we might be living in a time with a total war. I don’t even pretend to understand why.’<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I commented in response:<\/p>\n

Can I propose a corollary to Godwin’s Law??<\/p>\n

All discussions of geopolitics are ultimately reduced to psychosexual accusations about those who may in any way support war.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll suggest that we can call it ‘Kimmet’s Law,’ and note that fruitful discussion about issues of war pretty much ends about at that point.<\/p>\n

I’d also suggest that Kimmitt and friends may want to make their points about the psychosexual defects of those who believe that force has it’s uses to a Tutsi or Bosnian Muslim. I’m sure the Dutch soldiers in Srebenca were concerned that they might appear overly butch as the Serbs came down the road, and that a careful explanation to the Hutu mobs or Serbian patramilitaries that their actions really came from a feeling of sexual inadequancy would have done the job in turning them back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at Michael Totten’s, he has a great post (which should be read in conjunction with the Benny Morris interview linked by Roger Simon) about what war is. One of his commenters, Kimmitt, made this comment: ‘And some Americans get an awful lot of wood from the idea that we might be living in a […]<\/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\/304"}],"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=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}