{"id":60520,"date":"2016-10-07T06:29:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T11:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60520"},"modified":"2016-10-05T06:32:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T11:32:59","slug":"wages-of-hegemony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60520","title":{"rendered":"Wages Of Hegemony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Williamson, by way of hammering both Clinton&#8217;s self-destructive take on national security and Donald Trump&#8217;s simplistic and wrong-headed one, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/440710\/trump-nationalism-diminishes-american-greatness\">points out a consequence of American military, cultural and social hegemony<\/a>\u00a0that eludes Big Left\u00a0<em>and\u00a0<\/em>some of the libertarians who, these days, are increasingly indistinguishable from the left:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The American example has changed \u2014 forever \u2014 what the people of this world believe to be possible for themselves, bringing into present reality peace and prosperity that even the most utopian thinkers of three centuries ago would not have permitted themselves to dream of. Having liberated ourselves from the superstition of zero-sum economic thinking, the United States grew rich while helping other nations grow rich, too. That, too, is neither entirely altruistic nor entirely self-interested: When the United States intervened to save India from famine 50 years ago, and when Norman Borlaug et al. helped India to make a century\u2019s worth of agricultural advances in a relatively short period of time, nobody was thinking about American exports or business practices in 2016. But it is the case that a rich India is much better suited to buy the things that America exports \u2014 aircraft, industrial machinery, optical and medical instruments \u2013\u00a0than is a poor India. For all our present anxiety, a rich China will be much better for the United States \u2013\u00a0and the world \u2013\u00a0than a poor China.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As always with Williamson, read the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>And then ask yourself; what good does an America that doubts and checks itself do anyone else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Williamson, by way of hammering both Clinton&#8217;s self-destructive take on national security and Donald Trump&#8217;s simplistic and wrong-headed one, points out a consequence of American military, cultural and social hegemony\u00a0that eludes Big Left\u00a0and\u00a0some of the libertarians who, these days, are increasingly indistinguishable from the left: The American example has changed \u2014 forever \u2014 what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,11],"tags":[289],"class_list":["post-60520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-world","tag-kevin-williamson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60521,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60520\/revisions\/60521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}