{"id":8522,"date":"2016-12-15T13:08:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T21:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=8522"},"modified":"2016-12-15T13:08:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T21:08:37","slug":"the-syrian-war-condensed-a-more-rigorous-way-to-look-at-the-conflict-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/the-syrian-war-condensed-a-more-rigorous-way-to-look-at-the-conflict-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"The Syrian War Condensed: A more Rigorous Way to Look at the Conflict | Medium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Full article: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/opacity\/the-syrian-war-condensed-a-more-rigorous-way-to-look-at-the-conflict-f841404c3b1d#.1ueetp470\" target=\"_blank\">The Syrian War Condensed: A more Rigorous Way to Look at the Conflict <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong class=\"markup--strong markup--p-strong\">Note 1.<\/strong> Assad father\u2019s operatives blew up my house in Amioun when my grandfather, then MP, voted for Bashir. In <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Skin in the Game<\/em> I discuss this as \u201cacting against one\u2019s interest\u201d (the opposite of conflict of interest). So as a scientist and a humanist, I have been setting my grudge aside in considering the far, far, far, greater cancer of Salafism or Islamofascism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I just published \u201cThe Syrian War Condensed: A more Rigorous Way to Look at the Conflict\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KlvRXg0fwG\">https:\/\/t.co\/KlvRXg0fwG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\/status\/809362847771820032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full article: The Syrian War Condensed: A more Rigorous Way to Look at the Conflict Note 1. Assad father\u2019s operatives blew up my house in Amioun when my grandfather, then MP, voted for Bashir. In Skin in the Game I discuss this as \u201cacting against one\u2019s interest\u201d (the opposite of conflict of interest). So as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1381],"tags":[1382,1337,1021,1086],"class_list":["post-8522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medium","tag-islamofascism","tag-salafism","tag-sitg","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8524,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522\/revisions\/8524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}