{"id":181358,"date":"2016-07-20T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T00:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/20\/this-means-more-slavering-war-monger\/"},"modified":"2016-07-20T19:29:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T00:29:00","slug":"this-means-more-slavering-war-monger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/20\/this-means-more-slavering-war-monger\/","title":{"rendered":"This Means More Slavering War Monger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are reports Hillary Clinton <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/20\/us\/politics\/hillary-clinton-vice-president.html\">is looking for extensive &#8220;national security&#8221; experience in her VP pick<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A quick translation from beltway bullsh%$ is that she is looking for someone who is thoroughly inculcated in the solipsistic dysfunction that qualifies as conventional political wisdom in the nation&#8217;s capital, which means that unthinking support for self-destructive wars and an unrestrained military-industrial complex:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Facing a fall contest against a Republican opponent focused on law and order, Hillary Clinton has narrowed her search for a vice-presidential candidate, telling several potential running mates that she needs a No. 2 who would bring national security experience to the Democratic ticket.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mrs. Clinton\u2019s shortlist includes James G. Stavridis, a retired four-star Navy admiral who served as the 16th supreme allied commander of NATO, and Senator Tim Kaine, a former Virginia governor who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">She is widely expected to present her choice at a rally in Miami on Saturday, according to people involved with the planning who discussed private conversations on the condition of anonymity.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If this report is true, it&#8217;s a tell:&nbsp; Hillary is looking to engage in an even more extensive program of wasting American blood and treasure in foreign lands.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so glad that I live in Maryland, so my vote does not matter, and I do not have to vote for her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are reports Hillary Clinton is looking for extensive &#8220;national security&#8221; experience in her VP pick. A quick translation from beltway bullsh%$ is that she is looking for someone who is thoroughly inculcated in the solipsistic dysfunction that qualifies as conventional political wisdom in the nation&#8217;s capital, which means that unthinking support for self-destructive wars &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,965,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-hillary-clinton","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181358"}],"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=181358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}