{"id":27,"date":"2003-07-12T15:56:26","date_gmt":"2003-07-12T22:56:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-07-12T15:56:26","modified_gmt":"2003-07-12T22:56:26","slug":"max-boot-washington-needs-a-colonial-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/12\/max-boot-washington-needs-a-colonial-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Boot: &#8220;Washington Needs a Colonial Office&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Financial Times, reprinted in The Weekly Standard. My two favorite parts:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to create a colonial office&#8211;fast. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, it cannot be called that. It needs an anodyne euphemism such as Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leo who? Nineteen eighty-what? Das Boot continues:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it should take its inspiration, if not its name, from the old British Colonial Office and India Office. Together, these two institutions ran large swaths of the world with a handful of bright, honest, industrious civil servants. They had an enormous impact, given the small numbers involved; there were seldom more than 1,000 members of the Indian civil service to administer hundreds of millions of Indians.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Wow! What an extraordinary ratio of (white) chiefs to (literal) Indians! How did they ever manage?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/Content\/Public\/Articles\/000\/000\/002\/867lqbsv.asp\" title=\"Find the article here\">Find the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Financial Times, reprinted in The Weekly Standard. My two favorite parts: &#8220;We need to create a colonial office&#8211;fast. Of course, it cannot be called that. It needs an anodyne euphemism such as Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance.&#8221; Leo who? Nineteen eighty-what? Das Boot continues: &#8220;But it should take its inspiration, if not [&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-27","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\/27","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=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}