{"id":273,"date":"2006-05-01T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=273"},"modified":"2007-12-30T15:25:10","modified_gmt":"2007-12-30T23:25:10","slug":"hypothetical-iraq-scenario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"Hypothetical Iraq scenario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Adam's posts an interesting hypothetical scenario in hits <a href=\"http:\/\/dilbertblog.typepad.com\/the_dilbert_blog\/2006\/04\/war_for_money.html\">29 April 2006 blog entry<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Suppose you believed that the world is soon reaching an oil supply crisis.  Many experts believe that. And suppose the consensus of economists is that  unless the oil supply problem is solved, America will be plunged into a spiral  of depression the likes of which has never been seen.<\/p>\n<p>If America goes down, the rest of the industrial world will too. Starvation  will follow. Health services will crumble. Crime will soar. Lots of people will  die. Imagine China losing half of its customer base in a year. Could 100 million  people die from a large economic disaster? I think so.<\/p>\n<p>Now suppose America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s experts thought that a smallish war to depose an evil  Iraqi dictator was all that was needed to buy another 20 years of reliable oil  supply \u00e2\u20ac\u201c long enough to develop alternative energy sources that are economical.<\/p>\n<p>Under my hypothetical scenario, would America have a moral obligation to  attack Iraq under false pretenses if its experts believed that doing so protects  the most lives in the long run?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is strictly hypothetical.\u00c2\u00a0 Scott is not saying that he believes this is what happened with the current Iraq war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Adam's posts an interesting hypothetical scenario in hits 29 April 2006 blog entry: Suppose you believed that the world is soon reaching an oil supply crisis. Many experts believe that. And suppose the consensus of economists is that unless the oil supply problem is <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=273\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}