{"id":1464,"date":"2004-11-16T18:25:12","date_gmt":"2004-11-17T01:25:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-11-16T18:25:12","modified_gmt":"2004-11-17T01:25:12","slug":"maybe-they-should-call-it-power-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/16\/maybe-they-should-call-it-power-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe They Should Call It &#8220;Power &#038; Power&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Liberty &#038; Power, <a href=http:\/\/hnn.us\/blogs\/entries\/8566.html>Aeon Skoble writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>Lileks makes two very insightful, yet amazingly economical, observations today. The first, regarding the reports that Condi Rice is likely to become the Secretary of State: &#8220;I want her to go to Saudi Arabia, and I want her first words upon getting off the plane to be &#8216;I&#8217;ll drive.'&#8221; Yes. At some point, these medievals need to brought into the 21st century, or at least the 20th.<\/ul>\n<p>Right, because the job description of secretary of state includes &#8220;needlessly antagonizing other countries, especially allies.&#8221; Perhaps when she gets done with that, she could:<\/p>\n<p>-go to the Vatican and suck face with Madonna<br \/>\n-do a strip-tease in Islamabad<br \/>\n-take her pet pooch to Seoul and dare the locals to eat it<\/p>\n<p>Lileks&#8217; suggestion is ludicrous in the first place because Ms. Rice doesn&#8217;t drive herself anywhere &#8212; to hop off the plane in Riyadh and demand to drive would be a flagrant act of singling-out. But far worse, it would have nothing to do with Saudi Arabia&#8217;s policies toward the U.S.  It would be pure imperial muscle-flexing to send an official representative to demand another country tailor its domestic policies to our liking.<\/p>\n<p>If Ms. Rice wants to go protest the &#8220;backwards&#8221; laws of another country as a private citizen &#8212; which means accepting the possible repercussions of such civil disobedience the way you or I would &#8212; fine. But you liberventionists shouldn&#8217;t hold your breath waiting on that.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Liberty &#038; Power, Aeon Skoble writes: Lileks makes two very insightful, yet amazingly economical, observations today. The first, regarding the reports that Condi Rice is likely to become the Secretary of State: &#8220;I want her to go to Saudi Arabia, and I want her first words upon getting off the plane to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}