{"id":1066,"date":"2001-10-20T08:50:59","date_gmt":"2001-10-20T13:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2001-10-20T08:50:59","modified_gmt":"2001-10-20T13:50:59","slug":"doing_little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/20\/doing_little.html","title":{"rendered":"Doing little"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/hanson\/hanson101801.shtml\">The Time Machine<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Yet another <i>National Review <\/i>piece (by Victor Davis Hanson) on the Doolittle Raid over Tokyo, and suggested modern reactions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">Until this rash response, we were at a critical lull in a precious four months of reasoned sobriety, a sort of equilibrium where Pearl Harbor could be seen in terms as a response to our own prior indifference \u2014 or in fact hostility \u2014 to the legitimate aspirations of the Japanese people. But with Mr. Doolittle&#8217;s theatrics we are entering a cycle of violence, where the root causes of this conflict will not be addressed by bombing in some sort of endless tit-for-tat.<\/p>\n<p>Wickedly funny.<\/p>\n<p><small>(Via, yet again, guess who)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Time Machine Yet another National Review piece (by Victor Davis Hanson) on the Doolittle Raid over Tokyo, and suggested modern reactions. 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