{"id":171,"date":"2002-10-22T10:51:01","date_gmt":"2002-10-22T14:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=171"},"modified":"2002-10-22T10:51:01","modified_gmt":"2002-10-22T14:51:01","slug":"den-beste-digeste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Den Beste Digeste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Stardate:<\/b> 20021021.2325<br \/>\n<b>Word Count:<\/b> 3,000<br \/>\n<b>Title:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/denbeste.nu\/cd_log_entries\/2002\/10\/LaterWhen.shtml\">Later When?<\/a><br \/>\n<b>Impetus:<\/b> France.<br \/>\n<b>Thesis:<\/b> Follow the money. Iraq owes Russia and France billions of dollars, which they may collect if Saddam stays in power but probably won&#8217;t if he doesn&#8217;t. But they can&#8217;t ally themselves with Iraq openly. Thus they dither over bureaucratic resolutions, in an effort to postpone war as long as possible.<br \/>\n<b>Psychological Analogy:<\/b> Parkinson&#8217;s Second Law: Delay is the deadliest form of denial. In child-rearing: &#8220;I&#8217;ll take you to the mall&#8230;later.&#8221; In politics: the Environmental Impact Statement. In engineering: &#8220;That&#8217;s a Version 2 feature.&#8221;<br \/>\n<b>Best Quote:<\/b> &#8220;The Environmental Impact Statement is easily the greatest achievement of the environmentalist movement. Imagine: an <em>entire<\/em> government bureaucracy was created for the sole purpose of forcing anyone who wants to build anything anywhere to spend vast amounts of money on studies and create truly awesome reports, all of which can then be used by enemies of the project to work against it.&#8221;<br \/>\n<b>Bonus:<\/b> There is an <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/World\/ap20021019_949.html\">international agency<\/a> of French-speaking countries called <em>La Francophonie<\/em>, which is just too good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stardate: 20021021.2325 Word Count: 3,000 Title: Later When? Impetus: France. Thesis: Follow the money. Iraq owes Russia and France billions of dollars, which they may collect if Saddam stays in power but probably won&#8217;t if he doesn&#8217;t. But they can&#8217;t ally themselves with Iraq openly. Thus they dither over bureaucratic resolutions, in an effort to <a href='https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=171' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}