{"id":55510,"date":"2017-06-08T13:24:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T13:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55510"},"modified":"2017-06-08T13:24:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T13:24:41","slug":"anything-self-defeating-is-an-ouroboros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55510","title":{"rendered":"Anything self-defeating is an ouroboros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; Tankel&#8217;s take on Trump&#8217;s CT ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly the self-devouring snakes I track here are a little more subtle about the circular nature of their logic &#8212; the phrasing often hides the fact that man bites self, or dog chases own tail. This example, however, is just so blatant, presented in so large and darkna font, with its accompanying image just so dazzlingly colored, that I just has to bring it here.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/self-defeating.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"405\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/self-defeating.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/self-defeating-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Self-defeating, self-eating &#8212; it&#8217;s the self- part that signals trouble. <strong>Stephen Tankel<\/strong> is a fine researcher &#8212; his book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Storming-World-Stage-Lashkar-Taiba\/dp\/0199327076\">Storming the World Stage: The Story of Lashkar-e-Taiba<\/a> is recommended readng on the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.<\/p>\n<p>He is not a happy chap:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The emerging Trump counterterrorism strategy appears to be a dysfunctional combination of repurposed elements of the George W. Bush and Barack Obama approaches infused with some of Trump\u2019s worst impulses<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You <a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2017\/06\/06\/trumps-plan-to-defeat-terrorism-is-self-defeating\/\">may wish to read him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as an ad to accompany CNN&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2017\/06\/07\/middleeast\/iran-parliament-shooting\/index.html\">Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards blame Saudis for Tehran attacks<\/a>, I got this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/future-isnt-self-aware.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"75\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/future-isnt-self-aware.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/future-isnt-self-aware-300x38.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay ouroboroi!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; Tankel&#8217;s take on Trump&#8217;s CT ] . Mostly the self-devouring snakes I track here are a little more subtle about the circular nature of their logic &#8212; the phrasing often hides the fact that man bites self, or dog chases own tail. This example, however, is just so blatant, presented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[680,526,760,1314,859,560,93,183,1479,786,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fail","category-charles-cameron","category-counterterrorism","category-donald-trump","category-form","category-india","category-iran","category-obama","category-ouroboros","category-saudi-arabia","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55510","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55510"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55516,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55510\/revisions\/55516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}