{"id":2047,"date":"2005-04-29T19:00:42","date_gmt":"2005-04-30T02:00:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-04-29T19:00:42","modified_gmt":"2005-04-30T02:00:42","slug":"whither-steele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/29\/whither-steele\/","title":{"rendered":"Whither Steele?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s spotlight<\/a> article by Jonathan Steele and Dahr Jamail is certainly compelling. Having read some of Jamail’s dispatches<\/a> from Iraq, I was not surprised. <\/p>\n

What did strike me as strange, though, is that just last Friday, I read a rant<\/a> by Steele about Blair’s “good war” in Kosovo – which, just to be clear, Steele supported then, and supports now. Steele was in full-froth mode, glorifying the ICG advocacy<\/a> of Albanian separatism and declaring that not rewarding the KLA would be a “victory for Milosevic.” So forgive me if I take his “antiwar” sentiments with a grain of salt. <\/p>\n

Steele – just like Georgie Anne Geyer and Anthony Lewis, to name just two notable pundits – opposes aggression in Iraq<\/i>, not aggression as such. It would be interesting to find out what reasoning they can offer for such a position. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s spotlight article by Jonathan Steele and Dahr Jamail is certainly compelling. Having read some of Jamail’s dispatches from Iraq, I was not surprised. What did strike me as strange, though, is that just last Friday, I read a rant by Steele about Blair’s “good war” in Kosovo – which, just to be clear, Steele […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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-2047","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\/2047","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2047"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}