{"id":1117,"date":"2001-10-15T11:55:17","date_gmt":"2001-10-15T16:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2001-10-15T11:55:17","modified_gmt":"2001-10-15T16:55:17","slug":"how_to_lose_a_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/15\/how_to_lose_a_w.html","title":{"rendered":"How to lose a war"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to lose a war<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

InstaPundit notes: “You want to lose the war on terrorism? Just let Americans become convinced that it’s nothing more than an excuse for corporate bailouts and power-grabs”<\/i><\/p>\n

It would be a bloody, bloody shame (in all senses of the adjective) if the patriotic unity that 9-11 brought to the surface were squandered so easily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How to lose a war InstaPundit notes: “You want to lose the war on terrorism? Just let Americans become convinced that it’s nothing more than an excuse for corporate bailouts…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2411,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/28\/waxed_pledge.html","url_meta":{"origin":1117,"position":0},"title":"Waxed Pledge","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Jun-02 7:11am","format":false,"excerpt":"More interesting history of the Pledge of Allegience in the pages of Reason. 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