{"id":209,"date":"2008-08-20T15:13:30","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T20:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2008-08-20T15:13:30","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T20:13:30","slug":"whats-the-matter-with-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2008\/08\/20\/whats-the-matter-with-america\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s The Matter With America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Interview of Basevich\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/moyers\/journal\/08152008\/watch.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to Bill Moyers&#8217; interview of <a title=\"Information on the Author\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/moyers\/journal\/08152008\/profile.html\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew J. Bacevich<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The description of this interview on the Moyers&#8217; web site is as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Is an imperial presidency destroying what America stands for? Bill Moyers sits down with history and international relations expert and former US Army Colonel Andrew J. Bacevich who identifies three major problems facing our democracy: the crises of economy, government and militarism, and calls for a redefinition of the American way of life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do not bother asking yourself what is the matter with Kansas. We had better start asking ourselves what is the matter with America.<\/p>\n<p>The change that Bacevich says we need is unlikely to occur until we can ask this question.<\/p>\n<p>I came across this interview because of the amount of discussion that it engendered on the Web.\u00a0 It is well worth listening to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to Bill Moyers&#8217; interview of Andrew J. Bacevich. The description of this interview on the Moyers&#8217; web site is as follows: Is an imperial presidency destroying what America stands for? Bill Moyers sits down with history and international relations expert and former US Army Colonel Andrew J. Bacevich who identifies three major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-periodic-posts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}