{"id":44,"date":"2005-07-11T11:25:18","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T15:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/wp\/?p=44"},"modified":"2005-07-11T11:25:18","modified_gmt":"2005-07-11T15:25:18","slug":"t_r_u_t_h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2005\/07\/t_r_u_t_h\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware the &#8220;War on Terror&#8221;, Truthout.org. Article."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"t r u t h o u t - Norman Solomon | Beware the \"War on Terror\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2005\/070905X.shtml\">t r u t h o u t &#8211; Norman Solomon | Beware the &#8220;War on Terror&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Terrorism is not an enemy. It cannot be defeated. It&#8217;s a tactic. It&#8217;s about as sensible to say we declare war on night attacks and expect we&#8217;re going to win that war. We&#8217;re not going to win the war on terrorism. And it does whip up fear. Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>US Army general, William Odom, Retired, Nov\/2002 on C-SPAN.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>t r u t h o u t &#8211; Norman Solomon | Beware the &#8220;War on Terror&#8221; &#8220;Terrorism is not an enemy. It cannot be defeated. It&#8217;s a tactic. It&#8217;s about as sensible to say we declare war on night &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2005\/07\/t_r_u_t_h\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}