{"id":300,"date":"2003-11-24T22:41:27","date_gmt":"2003-11-25T05:41:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-11-24T22:41:27","modified_gmt":"2003-11-25T05:41:27","slug":"that-joke-isnt-funny-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/24\/that-joke-isnt-funny-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"That Joke Isn&#8217;t Funny Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great featured essay today by <a href=http:\/\/www.quebecoislibre.org\/031122-9.htm> Chris Leithner<\/a> on non-interventionism. Of the Founders, he writes,<\/p>\n<p><i>Far from being backward, xenophobic and the like, many possessed a keen interest in foreign languages, history, culture, technical and economic developments. Indeed, several ranked among the best literary, technical and commercial minds of the late-eighteenth century. On cultural, scientific and economic grounds, most (Hamiltonians were perhaps an exception) favoured extensive and unfettered private associations with foreigners.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I needn&#8217;t take the obvious (and painfully true) jabs at the current president here, for his affliction is America&#8217;s. His ignorance is hardly exceptional. Ironically, as the U.S. imperium has grown, with peals of self-applause from the &#8220;internationalists,&#8221; Americans&#8217; interest in and knowledge of the world has shrunk. Eighty-five percent of the young adults taking <a href=http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/geosurvey\/templates\/question_1.html>this simple survey<\/a> could not find Afghanistan, Iraq, or Israel on the map. This contrast has been drawn before, of course, but usually by those who see only a funny coincidence. I find no humor and very little simple coincidence any longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great featured essay today by Chris Leithner on non-interventionism. Of the Founders, he writes, Far from being backward, xenophobic and the like, many possessed a keen interest in foreign languages, history, culture, technical and economic developments. Indeed, several ranked among the best literary, technical and commercial minds of the late-eighteenth century. On cultural, scientific and [&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-300","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\/300","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=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}