{"id":57,"date":"2008-03-27T20:36:47","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T01:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2008-03-27T20:36:47","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T01:36:47","slug":"the-case-against-attacking-civilian-populations-for-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2008\/03\/27\/the-case-against-attacking-civilian-populations-for-revenge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case Against Attacking Civilian Populations for Revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled across an article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2007\/112807a.html\" title=\"Article on Colin Powell\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>The Truth about Colin Powell<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This covers a significant part of Colin Powell&#8217;s career.\u00a0 There is a\u00a0 large section in the beginning that details some experiences that Colin Powell had during the Viet Nam War.\u00a0 It is a lesson on exactly why it is stupid and immoral to attack a civilian population to get revenge for military setbacks.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the article goes into some other fiascoes involving Colin Powell.\u00a0 If only I had known about this before the Iraq War, I would have been even more sure that it was a mistake.\u00a0 Even the rest of the country and world would have known not to trust Colin Powell&#8217;s assurances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled across an article titled The Truth about Colin Powell. This covers a significant part of Colin Powell&#8217;s career.\u00a0 There is a\u00a0 large section in the beginning that details some experiences that Colin Powell had during the Viet Nam War.\u00a0 It is a lesson on exactly why it is stupid and immoral to attack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64,46,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-57","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-periodic-posts","7":"tag-colin-powell-credibility","8":"tag-iraq-war","9":"tag-revenge-on-civilians","10":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","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=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}