{"id":113,"date":"2003-11-17T16:20:01","date_gmt":"2003-11-17T23:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=113"},"modified":"2003-11-17T16:20:01","modified_gmt":"2003-11-17T23:20:01","slug":"politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/hanson\/hanson200311170846.asp\">new realities of war<\/a>.  Key graf:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Consider Operation Desert Fox of December 1999. While mired in an<br \/>\n   impeachment scandal, President Clinton ordered four days of bombing<br \/>\n   against supposed WMD facilities in Iraq. Few claimed that he had<br \/>\n   bombed to divert domestic attention from his own political troubles,<br \/>\n   much less that the absence of any proof of destroyed weapons<br \/>\n   facilities suggested there was none there to begin with. President<br \/>\n   Clinton was not pilloried for either preemption or unilateralism &#8212;<br \/>\n   although he did not go to the Senate for approval; did not seek U.N.<br \/>\n   discussions; and he did not make the case that Saddam had first<br \/>\n   attacked us &#8212; and of course he sought no multilateral resolution. Nor<br \/>\n   was NATO or Europe involved. General Zinni oversaw operations and in a<br \/>\n   press conference confessed that perhaps as many as 4,000 Iraqis could<br \/>\n   have been killed, including some civilians. There were no peace<br \/>\n   marches, no condemnatory European editorials, and very few Republican<br \/>\n   allegations that in a year before a national election the United<br \/>\n   States had unnecessarily and cynically aimed bombs at facilities that<br \/>\n   were neither proven to have made weapons nor later destroyed. No<br \/>\n   retired general accused General Zinni of unnecessary war making or<br \/>\n   inflicting collateral damage &#8212; or called Clinton a &#8220;chicken-hawk.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson on the new realities of war. Key graf: Consider Operation Desert Fox of December 1999. While mired in an impeachment scandal, President Clinton ordered four days of bombing against supposed WMD facilities in Iraq. Few claimed that he had bombed to divert domestic attention from his own political troubles, much less that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=113\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Politics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}