{"id":616,"date":"2008-03-09T14:51:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T18:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=616"},"modified":"2008-03-09T14:51:49","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T18:51:49","slug":"new-fallacies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=616","title":{"rendered":"New fallacies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy of George Will<\/a>, here’s a new fallacy (one he doesn’t commit, by the way):<\/p>\n

\n

\nU.S. policy toward Cuba should, however, be conditioned, and perhaps haunted, by U.S. policy toward China<\/a>.
\nThat policy was supposed to result in steady, slow-motion regime change
\nthrough candid subversion in broad daylight. The premise has been that
\nthe cure for communism is commerce with the capitalist world. The
\nassumption is that capitalism brings, because it requires, an ethic of
\ntrust and the rule of law in the form of promise-keeping (contracts).
\nAlso, the protection of private property gives individuals a sphere of
\nsovereignty and whets their appetites for a politics of popular
\nsovereignty.\n<\/p>\n


\nThis has been called "the Starbucks<\/a>
\nfallacy"<\/strong> (see James Mann’s book "The China Fantasy"): When people
\nbecome accustomed to many choices of coffee, they will demand many
\npolitical choices. This doctrine may be being refuted by the emergence
\nof a China that has become wealthier without becoming less
\nauthoritarian.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In addition to this self-effacing tidbit, the rest of his op-ed today seemed a model of reasonableness.  It’s not so hard to do, really.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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Courtesy of George Will, here’s a new fallacy (one he doesn’t commit, by the way): U.S. policy toward Cuba should, however, be conditioned, and perhaps haunted, by U.S. policy toward China. That policy was supposed to result in steady, slow-motion regime change through candid subversion in broad daylight. The premise has been that the cure … Continue reading New fallacies<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-will","category-good-arguments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}