{"id":191,"date":"2003-03-07T06:29:55","date_gmt":"2003-03-07T13:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2003-03-07T06:29:55","modified_gmt":"2003-03-07T13:29:55","slug":"its-the-right-thing-to-do-but-we-have-to-do-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/03\/its-the-right-thing-to-do-but-we-have-to-do-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the right thing to do, but we have to do it right."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Program ID 175414\" href=\"http:\/\/inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080\/cspan\/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&#038;record=162351531\">Thomas Friedman was on CSPAN2 last night.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The show was really compelling. Friedman seemed to have a compassion for the Arab world that led to understanding of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>I think compassion is really important in times of war&#8230;Actually, it&#8217;s important right before times of war. Which would be now.<\/p>\n<p>This has been one of my difficulties in discussing the Iraq situation with folks. I know for sure that no one I have met understands the situation even fundamentally.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we know about non-compliance of resolutions. We know about the possible consequences of mass-destruction weapons.<\/p>\n<p>But before you engage someone, it seems intelligent to understand their motivation.<\/p>\n<p>Calling Saddam insane, which W. essentially did in his State of the Union address, is simply lazy diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>Just saying &#8220;He&#8217;s crazy! He might do anything!&#8221; is a very weak strategic position.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if I agree with everything he said, because I haven&#8217;t checked it all out yet. But he&#8217;s the first person I&#8217;ve heard that I had initial respect for.<\/p>\n<p>I just keep thinking that we haven&#8217;t really sat down and LISTENED yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Friedman was on CSPAN2 last night. The show was really compelling. Friedman seemed to have a compassion for the Arab world that led to understanding of the situation. I think compassion is really important in times of war&#8230;Actually, it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/03\/its-the-right-thing-to-do-but-we-have-to-do-it-right\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/03\/its-the-right-thing-to-do-but-we-have-to-do-it-right\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}