{"id":1680,"date":"2005-08-05T21:15:20","date_gmt":"2005-08-06T05:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2006-04-17T09:53:40","modified_gmt":"2006-04-17T17:53:40","slug":"libertarian-realism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1680","title":{"rendered":"libertarian realism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=199\">Eric Raymond<\/a> argues in favor of the war.  Or rather, he argues in favor of some ideal war that will crush Islamic dreams of worldwide empire.  What&#8217;s missing is any defense of the war actually in progress.<\/p>\n<p>I like <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.russnelson.com\/politics\/yes-i-can-blame-them.html\">Russ Nelson<\/a>&#8216;s attitude:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nHow do you stop terrorism?<\/p>\n<p>By not being terrified. By not overreacting. By not giving up essential liberties to obtain a little temporary safety. By not wasting treasure on useless tactics.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>If terrorists came to America and killed 1,000 people a year, it wouldn&#8217;t even begin to show up on the causes of death. We can safely ignore terrorism. . . .<\/p>\n<p>The above was published on Dave Farber&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interesting-people.org\/\">IP<\/a> list. I received several &#8220;attaboy&#8221;s and one comment saying &#8220;Anyone with a single brain cell would agree that we need to stop terror.&#8221; I disagree. Do we need to stop earthquakes? Hurricanes? Tornados? Volcanos? Blizzards? Or do we need to survive them?\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Raymond argues in favor of the war. Or rather, he argues in favor of some ideal war that will crush Islamic dreams of worldwide empire. What&#8217;s missing is any defense of the war actually in progress. I like Russ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1680\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-militaria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}