{"id":6363,"date":"2010-08-02T12:31:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T16:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6363"},"modified":"2010-08-02T12:32:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T16:32:41","slug":"terrorists-to-iraqis-%e2%80%9cwe%e2%80%99ll-keep-the-lights-on-for-you%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6363\/terrorists-to-iraqis-%e2%80%9cwe%e2%80%99ll-keep-the-lights-on-for-you%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorists to Iraqis: \u201cWe\u2019ll Keep the Lights on for You\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cFor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.famousquotes.me.uk\/nursery_rhymes\/for_want_of_a_nail.htm\" target=\"_blank\">want of a nail<\/a> the shoe was lost.\u00a0 For want of a shoe the horse was lost.\u00a0 For want of a horse the rider was lost.\u00a0 For want of a rider the battle was lost.\u00a0 For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.\u00a0 And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s lesson in unintended consequences comes from an article that covers several flash points threatening to engulf a relatively peaceful Iraq into renewed chaos.\u00a0 One item shines brightest.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100802\/OPINION\/708019958\/1006\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Iraqi government can\u2019t provide more than 4 to 6 hours of electricity a day<\/a> to most of its citizens.\u00a0 With local temperatures many degrees over 100, people are rioting because of it.<\/p>\n<p>Consider what they\u2019re not rioting about: the escape of four convicted terrorists from prison; a five month delay in forming a coalition government to lead the nation; suicide bombings that killed 50 people; a stalemate in deciding how to divide the country\u2019s oil revenues.<\/p>\n<p>And yet what\u2019s the issue that caused people to \u201csmash government offices\u201d and demand change?\u00a0 Keeping the electricity running.<\/p>\n<p>Ideas like liberty, commerce and opportunity don&#8217;t get a lot of attention when basic services like relief from oppressive heat aren&#8217;t being delivered.<\/p>\n<p>The sooner the terrorists inside Iraq figure out that merely being a competent public administrator will probably be enough to get democratic control of the national government, the sooner the Arab world\u2019s only experiment in democracy will cease.<\/p>\n<p>All for want of a steady supply of energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor want of a nail the shoe was lost.\u00a0 For want of a shoe the horse was lost.\u00a0 For want of a horse the rider was lost.\u00a0 For want of a rider the battle was lost.\u00a0 For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.\u00a0 And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.\u201d Today&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[274,1644,1643,682],"class_list":["post-6363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-iraq","tag-public-administration","tag-sustainable-energy","tag-terrorist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6363"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6369,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363\/revisions\/6369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}