{"id":528,"date":"2006-11-17T08:42:23","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T16:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=528"},"modified":"2006-11-17T08:42:23","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T16:42:23","slug":"that-unpopular-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"That Unpopular War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belmont club describes the <a href=\"http:\/\/fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/first-iraq.html\">historical situation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Imagine a time when America found itself in a war against a foreign foe whose strategy was to inflict a constant rate of loss on the army; invited US and British reporters to feed antiwar elements with atrocity stories; when US commanders who expected a quick war against a corrupt and oligarchic native elite found they had roused the countryside against them. Imagine a time when the issue of this war was central to an American Presidential election, caused a split in one of the major parties and planted the seeds for a world war. Not Iraq. The war was Philippine-American War and the election that of 1912.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Throughout the past century, the Philippines managed, though not without hiccups, to remain one of the most free and democratic countries in Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belmont club describes the historical situation: Imagine a time when America found itself in a war against a foreign foe whose strategy was to inflict a constant rate of loss on the army; invited US and British reporters to feed antiwar elements with atrocity stories; when US commanders who expected a quick war against a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=528\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;That Unpopular War&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","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=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}