{"id":991,"date":"2004-05-06T11:14:40","date_gmt":"2004-05-06T16:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=991"},"modified":"2009-04-05T11:15:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T16:15:46","slug":"the-morality-of-the-pro-war-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2004\/05\/06\/the-morality-of-the-pro-war-left\/","title":{"rendered":"The morality of the pro-war left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nDoes the fact that US soldiers have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agonist.org\/annex\/taguba.htm\">engaged in torture<\/a> in Iraq demand of those on the left who supported the war to re-evaluate their position?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWasn&#8217;t the main reason given by those on the left who supported this war why they did so, the chance to remove a dictatorial regime, rather than any of the official reasons given by the Bush administration?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThan surely, the fact that the liberators themselve engage in torture and rape, must cause some soul searching? After all, what does liberation matter if torture still happens?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does the fact that US soldiers have engaged in torture in Iraq demand of those on the left who supported the war to re-evaluate their position? Wasn&#8217;t the main reason given by those on the left who supported this war why they did so, the chance to remove a dictatorial regime, rather than any of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,456],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decent-left","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","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=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}