{"id":940,"date":"2001-10-31T21:07:07","date_gmt":"2001-11-01T02:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=940"},"modified":"2001-10-31T21:07:07","modified_gmt":"2001-11-01T02:07:07","slug":"america_the_ter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/31\/america_the_ter.html","title":{"rendered":"America the Terrorist State?<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"

America the Terrorist State?<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Matt Welch<\/a> debates a “Chomskyite” on whether the US is “a flawed, arrogant, naive, idealistic, successful, occasionally brutal and constantly improving democracy, whose founding principles and imperfect track record have inspired billions worldwide, from Vaclav Havel to Fidel Castro,” or if it is “what the criminals have set up for the purpose of plundering and oppression.” And does so quite nicely, with blinders (of all stripes) firmly off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

America the Terrorist State? Matt Welch debates a “Chomskyite” on whether the US is “a flawed, arrogant, naive, idealistic, successful, occasionally brutal and constantly improving democracy, whose founding principles and…<\/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-940","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":129113,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/14\/the-founding-fathers-and-islam.html","url_meta":{"origin":940,"position":0},"title":"The Founding Fathers and Islam","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 14-Dec-15 12:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Islam and how proposals of religious freedom for the young America would affect Muslims (and other outr\u00e9 non-mainstream-Protestant believers like Jews and Catholics) came up repeatedly during the debates around the Constitution. 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