{"id":1121,"date":"2001-10-14T20:49:28","date_gmt":"2001-10-15T01:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2001-10-14T20:49:28","modified_gmt":"2001-10-15T01:49:28","slug":"war_and_rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/14\/war_and_rumors.html","title":{"rendered":"War, and rumors of war"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good commentary in the National Review<\/a> on changes in the US approach to war — especially telling in the apparent shift from the Powell Doctrine, even though Mr. Powell is now our Secretary of State (and perhaps why he is not our Secretary of Defense).<\/p>\n

If America is less afraid of body bags now, it may be because we have already sustained six thousand of them (or we would have sustained six thousand of them, if many of the victims of Al Qaeda had not been burned and crushed into nothingness). We may be witnessing the end of Vietnam Syndrome, and Somalia Syndrome, and Gulf War Syndrome: a war without syndromes, waged in our own defense. A just war that is not holy war, but wholly war.<\/p>\n

(Link via InstaPundit<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good commentary in the National Review on changes in the US approach to war — especially telling in the apparent shift from the Powell Doctrine, even though Mr. Powell is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1163,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/05\/to_yammer_or_no.html","url_meta":{"origin":1121,"position":0},"title":"To yammer, or not to yammer","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 5-Oct-01 9:28am","format":false,"excerpt":"Victory Blog cites a Slate article on \"War and Commentary.\" The article touches on what responsibilities a commentator, editorialist, or writer in general has during a time of crisis, both...","rel":"","context":"In "Fourth Estate"","block_context":{"text":"Fourth Estate","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/fourth-estate"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":22337,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/24\/review-ghost-soldiers-by-hampton-sides-2002.html","url_meta":{"origin":1121,"position":1},"title":"Review: “Ghost Soldiers” by Hampton Sides (2002)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 24-Aug-11 8:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"Ghost Soldiers: the Forgotten Epic Story of World War Ii's Most Dramatic Mission by Hampton Sides My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book details a US Rangers-led rescue from the Japanese POW camp at Cabanatuan in the Philippines in 1945. 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