{"id":242,"date":"2006-01-25T16:40:33","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T21:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2006-03-26T22:34:17","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T03:34:17","slug":"i-dont-support-our-troops-la-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"I Dont Support Our Troops &#8211; LA Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This from Joel Stein of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-stein24jan24,0,4137172.column\">LA Times<\/a>, the fourth most read paper in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I DON&#8217;T SUPPORT our troops.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;being against the war and saying you support the troops is one of the wussiest positions the pacifists have ever taken \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and they&#8217;re wussy by definition. It&#8217;s as if the one lesson they took away from Vietnam wasn&#8217;t to avoid foreign conflicts with no pressing national interest but to remember to throw a parade afterward.<\/p>\n<p>Blindly lending support to our soldiers, I fear, will keep them overseas longer by giving soft acquiescence to the hawks who sent them there&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This from Joel Stein of the LA Times, the fourth most read paper in the nation. &#8220;I DON&#8217;T SUPPORT our troops.&#8221; &#8220;&#8230;being against the war and saying you support the troops is one of the wussiest positions the pacifists have ever taken \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and they&#8217;re wussy by definition. It&#8217;s as if the one lesson they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}