{"id":58,"date":"2005-12-19T20:11:29","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T20:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=58"},"modified":"2005-12-19T20:11:29","modified_gmt":"2005-12-19T20:11:29","slug":"the-madness-of-king-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/the-madness-of-king-george\/","title":{"rendered":"The Madness of King George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bush really doesn&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s doing. At best, he&#8217;s a dupe for people who believe that we can create Middle Eastern allies by force. At worst, he believes that himself.<\/p>\n<p>The Iraq war was originally advertised as a way to protect our nation from imminent threats from Saddam Hussein. Now we&#8217;re being told that it&#8217;s a good idea because there will be constitutional democracy in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a deep breath and recognize that a) such a thing may not actually develop in a meaningful sense, and that b) an Iraqi constitutional democracy may not behave in ways that Bush, or Americans generally, approve of. <\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, it&#8217;s probably the case that a lot of Iraqis voted in large part out of the hope that it would get U.S. troops out of their country.<\/p>\n<p>It remains astonishing and worrisome to me that people believe any utterance issuing from George W. Bush&#8217;s mouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush really doesn&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s doing. At best, he&#8217;s a dupe for people who believe that we can create Middle Eastern allies by force. At worst, he believes that himself. The Iraq war was originally advertised as a way to protect our nation from imminent threats from Saddam Hussein. Now we&#8217;re being told that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}