{"id":87,"date":"2002-08-28T10:21:34","date_gmt":"2002-08-28T14:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=87"},"modified":"2002-08-28T10:21:34","modified_gmt":"2002-08-28T14:21:34","slug":"the-real-deterrent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"The Real Deterrent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Noah is <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/?id=2070188\">upset<\/a> with <span class=\"booktitle\">The New Republic<\/span> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/doc.mhtml?i=20020902&#038;s=editorial090202\">claiming<\/a> that Saddam has used &#8220;weapons of mass destruction.&#8221; Those pesky chemical and biological weapons with which he periodically massacres his own people aren&#8217;t <em>nuclear<\/em> weapons, so they don&#8217;t count. And after all:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If Saddam has already used &#8220;weapons of mass destruction&#8221; (and, moreover, suffered little for it), what deters him from using nukes in the future? They&#8217;re all &#8220;weapons of mass destruction,&#8221; aren&#8217;t they?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good point. With America&#8217;s journalists standing sentinel, manfully withholding condemnation of Saddam for using &#8220;weapons of mass destruction&#8221; until the moment he actually drops a nuclear bomb, I feel safer already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Noah is upset with The New Republic for claiming that Saddam has used &#8220;weapons of mass destruction.&#8221; Those pesky chemical and biological weapons with which he periodically massacres his own people aren&#8217;t nuclear weapons, so they don&#8217;t count. And after all: If Saddam has already used &#8220;weapons of mass destruction&#8221; (and, moreover, suffered little <a href='https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=87' 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-87","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\/87","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=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}