{"id":1281,"date":"2004-05-24T18:14:40","date_gmt":"2004-05-24T22:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/bill_whittle_es"},"modified":"2004-05-24T18:14:40","modified_gmt":"2004-05-24T22:14:40","slug":"bill_whittle_es","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1281","title":{"rendered":"Bill Whittle &#8211; essay on STRENGTH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ejectejecteject.com\/\">Bill Whittle<\/a> is a thoughtful and serious writer who is able to deal with very painful issues in an insightful and pragmatic fashion. He has written a series of essays which will soon appear in book form; Silent America &#8211; Essays from a democracy at war.<\/p>\n<p>If you are wondering why America should help the people of Iraq save themselves from the depredations of a 12th century religious cult, you should take the time to read the following essays: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ejectejecteject.com\/archives\/000099.html\">STRENGTH (part 1)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ejectejecteject.com\/archives\/000100.html\">STRENGTH (part 2)<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>One more thing. What do you think it will take to achieve the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A functioning, modern Iraq, where people can live their lives free of fear and oppression, where they can worship as they themselves see fit without imposing their beliefs on a neighbor or having them imposed on oneself, where they can perform the simple miracles of going to work each day, earning a living and coming home to a night of television with the family without knowing terror every second of every day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/civilization-calls.mu.nu\/\">Linda<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ejectejecteject.com\/\">Bill Whittle<\/a> is a thoughtful and serious writer who is able to deal with very painful issues in an insightful and pragmatic fashion. He has written a series of essays which will soon appear in book form; Silent America &#8211; Essays from a democracy at war.<\/p>\n<p>If you are wondering why America should help the people of Iraq save themselves from the depredations of a 12th century religious cult, you should take the time to read the following essays: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ejectejecteject.com\/archives\/000099.html\">STRENGTH (part 1)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ejectejecteject.com\/archives\/000100.html\">STRENGTH (part 2)<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1281\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1826],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-kF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}