{"id":4107,"date":"2011-06-18T14:19:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T14:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4107"},"modified":"2011-06-18T14:19:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T14:19:10","slug":"not-so-much-tactical-as-astrategic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4107","title":{"rendered":"Not so much Tactical as Astrategic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brief comment: I caught a news report yesterday that the Obama administration was preparing &#8220;war crimes&#8221; evidence against the Syrian regime for referral to the International Criminal Court, for it&#8217;s ongoing campaign of murder against Syrian demonstrators. Struggling to reconcile that policy with the NATO campaign in Libya, which labors under various odd restrictions, legal authorities and assumptions, I decided that &#8220;tactical&#8221; is not the right word to describe administration policy. Too many obvious potential tactical moves are being ignored, it isn&#8217;t just a lack of Mideast policy consistency. So, I thought perhaps a new term is required &#8220;<strong>astrategic&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; which I define as &#8220;An orientation of process and action for their own sake, with only an indirect relationship to ends and means&#8221;. Accurate? Fair?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief comment: I caught a news report yesterday that the Obama administration was preparing &#8220;war crimes&#8221; evidence against the Syrian regime for referral to the International Criminal Court, for it&#8217;s ongoing campaign of murder against Syrian demonstrators. Struggling to reconcile that policy with the NATO campaign in Libya, which labors under various odd restrictions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}