{"id":188787,"date":"2010-07-28T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T00:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/28\/quote-of-the-day-235\/"},"modified":"2010-07-28T19:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T00:57:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-235","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/28\/quote-of-the-day-235\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Most presidents start wondering\u2014or, more often, worrying\u2014about their \u201clegacy\u201d well into their first term. Or, if they have a second term, they worry even more feverishly about what posterity will think of them. Obama need not wonder about his legacy, even this early. It is already fixed, and in one word: Afghanistan. He took on what he made America\u2019s longest war and what may turn out to be its most disastrous one.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2010\/jul\/27\/obamas-legacy-afghanistan\/\">Historian Garry Wills<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It should be noted that Mr. (Dr?) Wills was one of 8 academics historians who had a dinner with him in June 2009, and gave him advice, and this is what he, and most of the other, guests said to his face.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that Obama is just desperately wrong on Afghanistan, because the alternative is that we are killing our hundreds soldiers, and thousands of <span>Afghans<\/span>, because Obama feels the political need to &#8220;look tough.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most presidents start wondering\u2014or, more often, worrying\u2014about their \u201clegacy\u201d well into their first term. Or, if they have a second term, they worry even more feverishly about what posterity will think of them. Obama need not wonder about his legacy, even this early. It is already fixed, and in one word: Afghanistan. He took on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,1011,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-history","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188787"}],"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=188787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}