{"id":70,"date":"2010-06-25T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/?p=70"},"modified":"2011-07-17T19:30:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T02:30:38","slug":"beyond-the-killing-fields-on-the-language-of-war-by-sydney-schanberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/2010\/beyond-the-killing-fields-on-the-language-of-war-by-sydney-schanberg\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Beyond the Killing Fields&#8217;: On the Language of War by Sydney Schanberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/06\/22\/author-sydney-schanberg-on-the-language-of-war\/<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is probably a good moment to raise the question of whether the United States is more bestial in war than other nations. From my years of covering wars close-up, the answer is no. Ours is one of the world&#8217;s more disciplined military forces. It&#8217;s war that by definition is bestial and insane. That&#8217;s why presidents and politicians always say they consider war only as a last resort &#8212; even when there is no evidence that they had considered any other options first.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/06\/22\/author-sydney-schanberg-on-the-language-of-war\/ &#8220;This is probably a good moment to raise the question of whether the United States is more bestial in war than other nations. From my years of covering wars close-up, the answer is no. Ours is one of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/2010\/beyond-the-killing-fields-on-the-language-of-war-by-sydney-schanberg\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squidskate.com\/artbobo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}