{"id":183715,"date":"2012-12-11T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/12\/11\/we-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-is-us-2\/"},"modified":"2012-12-11T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T01:20:00","slug":"we-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-is-us-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/12\/11\/we-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-is-us-2\/","title":{"rendered":"We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Military is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blog\/171582\/us-military-approves-bombing-children\">objectively pro bombing children<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cIt kind of opens our aperture,\u201d said Army Lt. Col. Marion \u201cCed\u201d Carrington, whose unit, 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, was assisting the Afghan police. \u201cIn addition to looking for military-age males, it\u2019s looking for children with potential hostile intent.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So targeting children, &#8220;Opens our aperture?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So not only are you going to target children, you are going to be ecstatic about it.&nbsp; It&#8217;s like the original <i>Deathrace 2000<\/i> movie, the one with David Carradine, where points were awarded not for skill, but for the helplessness of the victim and the brutality of the killing.<\/p>\n<p>Colonel Carrington, you had better hope that there is no God, and no afterlife, because if there is either, your eternity is not going to be pleasant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Military is now objectively pro bombing children: \u201cIt kind of opens our aperture,\u201d said Army Lt. Col. Marion \u201cCed\u201d Carrington, whose unit, 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, was assisting the Afghan police. \u201cIn addition to looking for military-age males, it\u2019s looking for children with potential hostile intent.\u201d So targeting children, &#8220;Opens our aperture?&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,1032,969,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-evil","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183715"}],"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=183715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}