{"id":178329,"date":"2019-01-03T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/01\/03\/tru-dat-2\/"},"modified":"2019-01-03T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T00:54:00","slug":"tru-dat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/01\/03\/tru-dat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tru Dat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2019\/01\/american-exceptionalism-is-a-dangerous-myth.html\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 140%; font-variant: small-caps;\">American Exceptionalism Is a Dangerous Myth<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is true.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 40 years, this myth has been a license for brutality and plundering on and scale that rivals the height of the British empire:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">But it would be more accurate to say that this is who <i>we\u2019ve too often been<\/i>.  This hateful sociopath, immune to all human sentiments save fear and  greed, devoid of all principles save a will to power, incapable of  seeing the world from anyone\u2019s perspective but his own \u2014 this is who we  were to the<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2018\/09\/john-mccain-memorial-vietnam-war-hero-pow-hanoi-funeral-patriotism.html\"> peasants of Vietnam,<\/a> and to the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/21\/world\/americas\/an-apology-for-a-guatemalan-coup-57-years-later.html\"> people of Jacobo \u00c1rbenz\u2019s Guatemala<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/14\/world\/americas\/chile-coup-cia-museum.html\">Salvador Allende\u2019s Chile<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2017\/06\/20\/64-years-later-cia-finally-releases-details-of-iranian-coup-iran-tehran-oil\/\">Mohammad Mosaddegh\u2019s Iran<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/kclpure.kcl.ac.uk\/portal\/files\/55215022\/BLAR.12518.pdf\">Jo\u00e3o Goulart\u2019s Brazil<\/a>, and so many other fragile republics yearning to breathe free.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two of the three DC area airports, Dulles and Reagan National, are named after psychopaths.<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing more horrifying than a people who believe that God is on their side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Exceptionalism Is a Dangerous Myth This is true. Over the past 40 years, this myth has been a license for brutality and plundering on and scale that rivals the height of the British empire: But it would be more accurate to say that this is who we\u2019ve too often been. This hateful sociopath, immune &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,394,464,389,504],"class_list":["post-178329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-evil","tag-foreign-relations","tag-good-writing","tag-history","tag-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}