{"id":2770,"date":"2003-02-07T12:07:43","date_gmt":"2003-02-07T19:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/02\/saddam-not-a-rational-man\/"},"modified":"2003-02-07T12:07:43","modified_gmt":"2003-02-07T19:07:43","slug":"saddam-not-a-rational-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/07\/saddam-not-a-rational-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Saddam not a rational man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall\" href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/feb0301.html#020703958am\">Talking Points Memo<\/a> points out that Saddam&#8217;s recent behavior belies the claims that he&#8217;s a rational actor who wouldn&#8217;t use a nuke irresponsibly:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re about to go to war with Iraq. It may be a terrible idea. It may go badly for us. We may get bogged down there for years. But one thing is absolutely certain: it will go terribly for Saddam Hussein.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, he could prevent the invasion by cooperating with Blix, but he steadfastly refuses. The fact that he also insisted on invading Kuwait when a gigantic global coalition told him not to should have been the tipoff.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking Points Memo points out that Saddam&#8217;s recent behavior belies the claims that he&#8217;s a rational actor who wouldn&#8217;t use a nuke irresponsibly: We&#8217;re about to go to war with Iraq. It may be a terrible idea. It may go badly for us. We may get bogged down there for years. But one thing is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/07\/saddam-not-a-rational-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saddam not a rational man&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-IG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}