{"id":3540,"date":"2010-10-04T14:20:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T20:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3540"},"modified":"2010-10-04T14:20:05","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T20:20:05","slug":"statistical-malpractice-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3540","title":{"rendered":"Statistical Malpractice Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve seen the claim that we have troops in 156 countries in numerous places, most recently Radley Balko’s awesome blog<\/a>. But I have to take some issue with it. From my comments:<\/p>\n

Not to [get] too deep into this, but that map of 156 countries with US troops looks very suspicious to me, and not just because their color coding is garbage \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Europe is white while other countries are two tones.<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve looked over the CDI website and found the map source (http:\/\/siadapp.dmdc.osd.mil\/personnel\/MILITARY\/history\/hst0609.pdf). Many of those 156 countries have single-digit or double-digit US personnel in them. For example, they list almost all countries in Africa, but only Djibouti has a significant presence. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re talking 10,000 or more, the list is Germany, Italy, UK, Japan, South Korea, Afghanistan and Iraq.<\/p>\n

What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the comparison? Do the UK or China have similar \u00e2\u20ac\u0153deployments\u00e2\u20ac\u009d? Are these military personnel assigned to embassies? Maybe it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just me, but having two military personnel stationed in Antigua does not seems like an extension of our Empire.<\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t disagree that we should pare down our foreign involvements. But let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s have an honest debate. The US is not occupying 3\/4 of the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve seen the claim that we have troops in 156 countries in numerous places, most recently Radley Balko’s awesome blog. But I have to take some issue with it. From my comments: Not to [get] too deep into this, but that map of 156 countries with US troops looks very suspicious to me, and not … Continue reading Statistical Malpractice Watch<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-V6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3541,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions\/3541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}