{"id":185978,"date":"2014-06-29T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/06\/29\/finally-someone-says-it-to-a-neocon\/"},"modified":"2014-06-29T19:27:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T00:27:00","slug":"finally-someone-says-it-to-a-neocon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/06\/29\/finally-someone-says-it-to-a-neocon\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, Someone Says IT to a Neocon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 310px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"256\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/videos.rawstory.com\/video\/ABC-guest-tells-architect-of-ca\/player?layout=&amp;read_more=1\" width=\"300\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Thats Gonna Leave a Mark<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Katrina Vanden, editor-in-chief of <i>The Nation<\/i> finally calls out the Neocons as cowards when she <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/nation-editor-kristol-enlist-iraqi-army\">tells Bill Kristol join the Iraqi army<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cFor example, the president should go to Congress if he\u2019s going to take military action in Iraq,\u201d she explained. \u201cThere\u2019s no military solution to Iraq, and I have to say, sitting next to Bill Kristol, man \u2014 I mean, the architects of catastrophe that have cost this country trillions of dollars, thousands of lives \u2014 there should be accountability.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cIf there are no regrets for the failed assumptions that have grievously wounded this nation \u2014 I don\u2019t know what happened to our politics and media accountability, but we need it, Bill,\u201d she continued. \u201cBecause this country should not go back to war. We don\u2019t need armchair warriors, and <b><span style=\"font-size: 150%; font-variant: small-caps;\">if you feel so strongly, you should, with all due respect, enlist in the Iraqi Army<\/span><\/b>.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>This needs to be said, repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p>The Neocons have spent <b>decades<\/b> accusing anyone who does not support their <b>stupid<\/b> military adventures of cowardice.<\/p>\n<p>Calling out them as armchair warriors who send <b>other people&#8217;s children<\/b> to die is an essential part of our public discourse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thats Gonna Leave a Mark Katrina Vanden, editor-in-chief of The Nation finally calls out the Neocons as cowards when she tells Bill Kristol join the Iraqi army: \u201cFor example, the president should go to Congress if he\u2019s going to take military action in Iraq,\u201d she explained. \u201cThere\u2019s no military solution to Iraq, and I have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051,1063,982,1027,979,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypocrisy","category-iraq","category-stupid","category-video","category-wanker","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185978"}],"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=185978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}