{"id":23576,"date":"2017-04-14T14:17:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T19:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23576"},"modified":"2017-04-14T14:17:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T19:17:42","slug":"what-could-go-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23576","title":{"rendered":"What Could Go Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What Could Go Wrong?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cThings fall apart; the center cannot hold.\u201d Yeats wrote. The funny thing is, we didn\u2019t seem to miss the center all that much after it was gone. America is perfectly satisfied hunkering down at the margins these days. Especially the margins of thinking.<\/p>\n

One thing that used to occupy the center was public discussion, debate, and argumentation. Now and again, it featured a coherent exchange of ideas. These days, the main political factions are sunk in hysteria of one kind or another. Their primitive promptings hardly add up to ideas but rather limbic spasms of fear and rage. And then there is the shadow partner of the two parties called the Deep State, led by the quaintly dubbed \u201cIntelligence Community.\u201d These birds, many of them lifers, are dedicated to making the public discussion of anything as incoherent as possible so as to prevent any change in policy that might curtail the growth of the Deep State, a sort of cancer of the body politic.<\/p>\n

Case in point, the recent Syrian aerial gas attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun. Elected officials were all over the cable networks selling the NSA\u2019s story that Syrian president Bashar Assad bombed women and children with Sarin gas three days after State Department declared that it had a new policy of letting Assad remain in power after decades of sedulously scheming to shove him out. That might have led to the end of the six-year-long Syrian civil war, which Assad seemed to be winning, finally \u2014 with Russian assistance.<\/p>\n

But instead the incident has led to new official calls to shove Assad out\u2026 to be replaced by what\u2026?<\/p>\n

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What Could Go Wrong? \u201cThings fall apart; the center cannot hold.\u201d Yeats wrote. The funny thing is, we didn\u2019t seem to miss the center all that much after it was gone. America is perfectly satisfied hunkering down at the margins these days. Especially the margins of thinking. One thing that used to occupy the center […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3218,14964,199,449,694,776,827,5906,15112],"class_list":["post-23576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-clusterfuck-nation","tag-deep-state","tag-james-howard-kunstler","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-us-intelligence","tag-us-intelligence-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23577,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23576\/revisions\/23577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}