{"id":9,"date":"2006-02-02T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2006-02-02T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T00:23:00","slug":"isolate-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Isolate this!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Bush&#8217;s straw-man argument against &#8220;isolationism&#8221; was perhaps the biggest revelation in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/stateoftheunion\/2006\/index.html\">State of the Union<\/a> speech Tuesday. Rarely are we able to see talking points being born, and this latest fight against a non-existent enemy is interesting only for the call to arms against an enemy which should leave most Americans asking, &#8220;Who is he talking about?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/020206C.shtml\">Andrew J. Bacevich<\/a> saw through this shell game in his article in the Los Angeles Times . Likening the cry against &#8220;isolationists&#8221; to red-baiting, Bacevich noted that &#8220;scaremongering about nonexistent isolationists preempts a much-needed debate over the principles that ought to inform our behavior as a world power.&#8221; Presumably we won&#8217;t be presented with lists of &#8220;known isolationists&#8221; in the State Department anytime soon, so only time will tell the utility of this latest distraction from debate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bush&#8217;s straw-man argument against &#8220;isolationism&#8221; was perhaps the biggest revelation in his State of the Union speech Tuesday. Rarely are we able to see talking points being born, and this latest fight against a non-existent enemy is interesting only for the call to arms against an enemy which should leave most Americans asking, &#8220;Who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=9\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Isolate this!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}