{"id":377,"date":"2007-07-22T21:17:38","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T03:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=377"},"modified":"2007-07-22T21:17:38","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T03:17:38","slug":"ten-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"Ten Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find <a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2007\/07\/lessons-learned.html\">this post<\/a> on ten lesson from Iraq fascinating (hat tip, Sully).  My favorite:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(6) Think very hard about the lessons of history. For every case like Munich, in which failing to confront a dictator more forcefully led to disaster, there is a Cuban Missile Crisis, in which a leader&#8217;s unwillingness to make the most hawkish response to a dictator&#8217;s provocation averted disaster. Trotting out Munich at every possible opportunity only ensures that the next time you find yourself in a Cuban Missile Crisis, your country will be turned to radioactive glass.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This works both ways. As I noted before, the Reichstag Fire is not the appropriate historical comparison for 9\/11. The Maine, the Zimmerman Telegram &#8211; these are more appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been on a very big history kick lately, bookwise. This year alone, I&#8217;ve read long books on the Civil War, the translation of the Bible, World War II and ancient Rome. The insight it gives me into modern issues is striking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find this post on ten lesson from Iraq fascinating (hat tip, Sully). My favorite: (6) Think very hard about the lessons of history. For every case like Munich, in which failing to confront a dictator more forcefully led to disaster, there is a Cuban Missile Crisis, in which a leader&#8217;s unwillingness to make the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=377\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ten Things<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-terror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-65","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","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=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}