{"id":1688,"date":"2005-01-22T07:34:39","date_gmt":"2005-01-22T14:34:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-01-22T07:34:39","modified_gmt":"2005-01-22T14:34:39","slug":"war-party-deserting-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/22\/war-party-deserting-under-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"War Party deserting under fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

William F. Buckley, Jr.<\/a> didn’t like the inaugural address either. “Confusing,” and apparently “an improvisation,” it was also ungrammatical: <\/p>\n

“Mr. Bush said that ‘whole regions of the world simmer in resentment and tyranny.’ You can simmer in resentment, but not in tyranny.<\/i><\/p>\n

Bad grammar and<\/i> bad policy: <\/p>\n

“What about China? Is it U.S. policy to importune Chinese dissidents ‘to start on this journey of progress and justice’? How will we manifest our readiness to ‘walk at [their] side?'”<\/i><\/p>\n

Invade?<\/p>\n

China is “too massive a challenge to our liberationist policy,” Buckley notes., and Africa “too exiguous.” Okay, then: <\/p>\n

“What about Saudi Arabia? Here is a country embedded in oppression. Does President Bush really intend to make a point of this? … Will we refuse to buy Saudi oil?”<\/i><\/p>\n

Yeah. That’s it: wind-powered cars. The wave of the future. <\/p>\n

Noonan<\/a>, Robinson<\/a>, and now Buckley are stampeding for the exits. And they didn’t even stay for the end of the second act. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

William F. Buckley, Jr. didn’t like the inaugural address either. “Confusing,” and apparently “an improvisation,” it was also ungrammatical: “Mr. Bush said that ‘whole regions of the world simmer in resentment and tyranny.’ You can simmer in resentment, but not in tyranny. Bad grammar and bad policy: “What about China? Is it U.S. policy to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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-1688","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\/1688","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}