{"id":186063,"date":"2014-05-22T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/05\/22\/weve-always-been-at-war-with-eastasia-2\/"},"modified":"2014-05-22T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T00:15:00","slug":"weve-always-been-at-war-with-eastasia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/05\/22\/weve-always-been-at-war-with-eastasia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve Always Been at War with Eastasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/dx8Jgu3.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/dx8Jgu3.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"120\" \/><\/a>If there is anything more Orwellian than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/05\/defense-department-refuses-tell-senate-groups-war.html\">the Pentagon refusing to reveal who we are at war with<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note that this was in a hearing about extending the Authorization of Use of Military Force (AUMF) where the Pentagon refused to say with whom we are fighting.<\/p>\n<p>So they are asking for an authorization to make war while refusing say <b>who<\/b> they are making war with, and <b>why<\/b> we are making war with them.<\/p>\n<p>This is a miasma of the most profoundly disturbing visions of both Orwell, and Kafka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is anything more Orwellian than the Pentagon refusing to reveal who we are at war with. Note that this was in a hearing about extending the Authorization of Use of Military Force (AUMF) where the Pentagon refused to say with whom we are fighting. So they are asking for an authorization to make &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,978,1103,1098,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-politics","category-secrecy","category-war","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186063"}],"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=186063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}