{"id":1076,"date":"2026-01-05T22:41:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2026-01-05T22:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:41:26","slug":"crude-ideology-john-ganz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/05\/crude-ideology-john-ganz\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCrude Ideology\u201d &#8211; John Ganz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cFor just one instance, in the run up to Operation Desert Storm, both President Bush and Secretary James Baker openly talked about our reliance on Middle Eastern oil and preventing a recession and therefore the loss of US jobs. But then the administration\u2019s rhetoric shifted, pointing to Saddam\u2019s human rights abuses and how horrible his regime was in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the analysis of one historian contends, the public pretty much bought the oil explanation; the human rights stuff didn\u2019t add much and may have even muddled the overall case, contributing to the rather short political gains of the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So maybe Trump has some good reason to believe that being openly rapacious is a better political path than making up fairy tales about democracy and human rights\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unpopularfront.news\/p\/crude-ideology\">https:\/\/www.unpopularfront.news\/p\/crude-ideology<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor just one instance, in the run up to Operation Desert Storm, both President Bush and Secretary James Baker openly talked about our reliance on Middle Eastern oil and preventing a recession and therefore the loss of US jobs. But then the administration\u2019s rhetoric shifted, pointing to Saddam\u2019s human rights abuses and how horrible his&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}