{"id":99,"date":"2003-06-04T18:38:51","date_gmt":"2003-06-04T18:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:07:44","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:07:44","slug":"congruence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Congruence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great <a href=\"http:\/\/windsofchange.net\/cgi-bin\/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=3570\" target=\"browser\">comment<\/a> by Francis W. Porretto (of the <a href=\"http:\/\/palaceofreason.com\/ \" target=\"browser\">Palace of Reason<\/a> blog):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Military analysts use the word &#8220;threat&#8221; to describe a possible adversary&#8217;s capabilities, without reference to his intentions. If our intentions were as bad as many of the world&#8217;s horror regimes, we&#8217;d use our fantastic power to make ourselves slaveowners over the whole world. Hell, if our intentions were even as bad as those of the Chirac Administration, the world would be in for a very rough ride.<\/p>\n<p>Since there&#8217;s absolutely no chance that America will ever deliberately diminish herself militarily just to make other regimes comfortable, all we can do is promote our intentions. This will be a matter of both words and deeds, and the congruence between them.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Continued&#8230;<\/b>I told the story of my <a href=\"http:\/\/windsofchange.net\/archives\/003572.html\">Subaru-driving pacifist, and highlighted Barbara Streisand&#8217;s hypocrisy<\/a> exactly because that <b>congruence<\/b> between what we say we believe and how we act is absolutely critical.<\/p>\n<p>It is critical for us &#8211; as liberals and Americans in general &#8211; to figure out how to bring our values and lives at least somewhat into line, and it is absolutely critical for us as a nation to use our power in ways that are consistent with  what we tell the world we believe and intend to do.<\/p>\n<p>Francis, thanks for bringing some clarity on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is critical for us &#8211; as liberals and Americans in general &#8211; to figure out how to bring our values and lives at least somewhat into line, and it is absolutely critical for us as a nation to use our power in ways that are consistent with  what we tell the world we believe and intend to do.<\/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\/99"}],"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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}