{"id":4740,"date":"2015-01-21T14:49:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T19:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4740"},"modified":"2015-01-21T14:49:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T19:49:51","slug":"charlie-hebdo-and-the-blowback-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4740","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Hebdo and the \u2018Blowback\u2019 Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/davidstockmanscontracorner.com\/charlie-hebdo-and-the-blowback-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Hebdo and the \u2018Blowback\u2019 Debate<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-30708237\" target=\"_blank\">vicious murder<\/a>\u00a0of the editors and writers of\u00a0<i>Charlie Hebdo<\/i>\u00a0magazine in Paris has had an effect similar to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/justin\/2002\/02\/13\/bizzaro-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">hysteria<\/a>\u00a0that followed the 9\/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon: demands that we\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=invade+Iraq&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;tbm=nws#tbm=nws&amp;q=troops+Iraq\">invade Iraq<\/a>\u00a0(again!) and also Syria, as well as a campaign of vilification directed at anyone who dares question this dangerous nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>What we might call the\u00a0<i>Charlie Hebdo<\/i>\u00a0Effect, in concert with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Jihadis-Return-Sunni-Uprising\/dp\/1939293596\/antiwarbookstore\" target=\"_blank\">the rise<\/a>\u00a0of the so-called Islamic State, has propped up the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/articles\/2013\/09\/10\/in-the-senate-syria-vote-delayed\" target=\"_blank\">previously failing<\/a>interventionist consensus, mobilizing previously faltering neocons on the right and \u201cliberal\u201d interventionists on what passes for the left around the flag of the War Party.<\/p>\n<p>You may ask: So what else is new? Yet there is something new-ish about the response of some of the more weak-kneed libertarians, who never did care much for the anti-interventionist critique of US foreign policy and have now come out of the closet, so to speak, training their fire not on the interventionists but on principled opponents of US militarism. Shikha Dalmia, writing in\u00a0<i>The Week<\/i>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/533736\/rand-paul-ron-paul-are-both-wrong-about-paris\" target=\"_blank\">takes aim at Ron Paul<\/a>: \u201cFormer congressman and erstwhile\u00a0presidential candidate Ron Paul offers a completely off-base analysis of the root cause of the episode. It is blowback for Western foreign policy adventurism, the libertarian-leaning Texan\u00a0claims.\u201d Paul, Dalmia avers, isn\u2019t \u201cdoing his avowed commitment to the cause of freedom any good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leaving aside for the moment the absurd \u201clibertarian-leaning\u201d appellation \u2013 is she\u00a0<i>really<\/i>\u00a0challenging Paul\u2019s libertarian\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ron-Paul\/e\/B001I9TTX6\" target=\"_blank\">credentials<\/a>? \u2013 Dalmia goes on to write:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Hebdo and the \u2018Blowback\u2019 Debate The\u00a0vicious murder\u00a0of the editors and writers of\u00a0Charlie Hebdo\u00a0magazine in Paris has had an effect similar to the\u00a0hysteria\u00a0that followed the 9\/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon: demands that we\u00a0invade Iraq\u00a0(again!) and also Syria, as well as a campaign of vilification directed at anyone who dares [&hellip;]<\/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":[84,2814,2127,2815,793],"class_list":["post-4740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-blowback","tag-foreign-affairs-policies","tag-interventionism","tag-libertarian","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740","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=4740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4741,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions\/4741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}