{"id":22657,"date":"2011-09-11T23:30:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T05:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/11\/unblogged-bits-sun-11-sep-11-2330.html"},"modified":"2011-09-11T23:30:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T05:30:34","slug":"unblogged-bits-sun-11-sep-11-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/11\/unblogged-bits-sun-11-sep-11-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sun. 11-Sep-11 2330)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. The $1.2 Trillion Trap: What America Gave Up For 10 Years Of War Since 9\/11 | ThinkProgress<\/a> – One can argue that the attack on Afghanistan was justified (if ill-planned and -executed), but considering the opportunity costs of war should always be something we do in any military venture.<\/li>\n
  2. Daily Kos: Most of you have no idea what Martin Luther King actually did<\/a> – Because turning the other cheek can actually be a liberation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. The $1.2 Trillion Trap: What America Gave Up For 10 Years Of War Since 9\/11 | ThinkProgress – One can argue that the attack on Afghanistan was justified (if ill-planned and -executed), but considering the opportunity costs of war … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sun. 11-Sep-11 2330)”<\/span><\/a><\/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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37863,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/20\/the-us-civil-war-was-the-worst-war-ever.html","url_meta":{"origin":22657,"position":0},"title":"The US Civil War was the worst war ever","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 20-Jun-13 4:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"... except for all the others that have been fought.Was the Civil War necessary? 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