{"id":46201,"date":"2019-05-18T07:13:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T12:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46201"},"modified":"2019-05-18T07:17:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T12:17:52","slug":"the-liberal-embrace-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46201","title":{"rendered":"The Liberal Embrace of War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Liberal Embrace of War<\/a> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

American interventionists learned a lesson from Iraq: pre-empt the debate. Now everyone is for regime change<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The United States has just suspended flights to Venezuela. Per the New York Times<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CARACAS \u2014 The United States banned all air transport with Venezuela on Wednesday over security concerns, further isolating the troubled South American nation\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A disinterested historian \u2014 Herodotus raised from the dead \u2014 would see this as just the latest volley in a siege tale. America has been trying for ages to topple the regime of President Nicholas Maduro, after trying for years to do the same to his predecessor, Hugo Chavez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new play in the Trump era involves recognizing Juan Guaid\u00f3 as president and starving and sanctioning the country. Maduro, encircled, has been resisting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The American commercial news landscape, in schism on domestic issues, is in lockstep here. Every article is seen from one angle: Venezuelans under the heel of a dictator who caused the crisis, with the only hope a \u201chumanitarian\u201d intervention by the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no other perspective. Media watchdog FAIR just released results of a study of three months of American opinion pieces<\/a>. Out of 76 editorials in the New York Times, Washington Post, <\/em>the \u201cbig three Sunday morning talk shows\u201d or PBS News Hour, zero came out against the removal of Maduro. They wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCorporate news coverage of Venezuela can only be described as a full-scale marketing campaign for regime change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allowable opinion on Venezuela ranges from support for military invasion to the extreme pacifist end of the spectrum, as expressed in a February op-ed by Dr. Francisco Rodriguez and Jeffrey Sachs called \u201cAn Urgent Call for Compromise in Venezuela<\/a>\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe strongly urge\u2026 a peaceful and negotiated transition of power rather than a winner-take-all game of chicken\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So we should either remove Maduro by force, or he should leave peaceably, via negotiation. These are the options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Liberal Embrace of War American interventionists learned a lesson from Iraq: pre-empt the debate. Now everyone is for regime change The United States has just suspended flights to Venezuela. Per the New York Times: CARACAS \u2014 The United States banned all air transport with Venezuela on Wednesday over security concerns, further isolating the troubled South […]<\/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":[5,6],"tags":[11015,2127,2875,3733,1343,21272,851],"class_list":["post-46201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-corporate-news","tag-interventionism","tag-liberals","tag-matt-taibbi","tag-regime-change","tag-rolling-stone-magazine","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46201","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=46201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46202,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46201\/revisions\/46202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}