{"id":375,"date":"2006-07-31T12:22:31","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T12:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=375"},"modified":"2006-07-31T12:22:31","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T12:22:31","slug":"just-a-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"Just a thought&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a>Qana heats up ceasefire diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since 12th July, excluding Qana, almost 400 people have been killed in Lebanon. That&#8217;s more than a 20-a-day habit.<\/p>\n<p>Then Qana, 60 in one place.<\/p>\n<p>Before Qana, Blair saw no need for an immediate ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>After Qana, and suddenly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the threshold? Why is 400 spread over a couple of weeks and a wide area OK, but 60 huddled together not OK?<\/p>\n<p>I guesss Bliar et al have some special morality calculator that gives them the vital info: input deaths over time, subtract public opinion, divide by racial bias, factor for kiddies, add air miles, account for special relationship and BINGO!<\/p>\n<p>2 Israeli captives: morality level HIMMLER<\/p>\n<p>20 Lebanese deaths\/day: morality level JUDY GARLAND<\/p>\n<p>60 Lebanese deaths; 50% &#8216;kiddies&#8217; + huddle factor: morality level: BERLUSCONI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qana heats up ceasefire diplomacy Since 12th July, excluding Qana, almost 400 people have been killed in Lebanon. That&#8217;s more than a 20-a-day habit. Then Qana, 60 in one place. Before Qana, Blair saw no need for an immediate ceasefire. After Qana, and suddenly&#8230; What&#8217;s the threshold? Why is 400 spread over a couple of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}