{"id":603,"date":"2008-03-07T08:10:17","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T13:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=603"},"modified":"2009-03-23T08:21:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T13:21:31","slug":"the-decentist-philosophy-in-a-nutshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2008\/03\/07\/the-decentist-philosophy-in-a-nutshell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decentist philosophy in a nutshell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bloodandtreasure.typepad.com\/blood_treasure\/2008\/03\/halcyon-days.html\">Jamie has it<\/a>, in a quote from one Paul Rogers taken from a review in the house organ of the English cruise missile left, Decentiya:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"cite\"><p>\nWhat wretched timing for Rogers then, that his book should be released at a time when American success in prosecuting the War on Terror is possibly at its highest point since the halcyon days of early 2003.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nWhat moves it from standard decentist &#8220;we so are winning the war on terror! We are! We are!&#8221; boilerplate is the phrase &#8220;halcyon days of early 2003&#8221;. For most of us, the &#8220;halycon days of early 2003&#8221; was when a disastrious war was started that so far has claimed the lives of a million or so Iraqis, cost literally trillions of dollars and has left Iraq a wasteland. For the decents this was the start of their glorious democratic crusade against totalitarism and the last time they could pretend that it was indeed a glorious crusade, instead of the clusterfuck it really was. Normally, they are self aware enough to realise most of us don&#8217;t share their nostalgia and hence temper their longing in public somewhat, but not Rogers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie has it, in a quote from one Paul Rogers taken from a review in the house organ of the English cruise missile left, Decentiya: What wretched timing for Rogers then, that his book should be released at a time when American success in prosecuting the War on Terror is possibly at its highest point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,45],"tags":[2437],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decent-left","category-war-on-iraq","tag-decent-left"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}