{"id":1276,"date":"2004-08-30T15:20:42","date_gmt":"2004-08-30T22:20:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-08-30T15:20:42","modified_gmt":"2004-08-30T22:20:42","slug":"bush-on-terror-war-we-cant-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/30\/bush-on-terror-war-we-cant-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush on Terror War: We Can&#8217;t Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uslatest\/story\/0,1282,-4461314,00.html\">George W. Bush was on the Today Show today.<\/A><\/p>\n<p>During the course of talking about how we mustn&#8217;t dare end the war on terror&#8230; ever, because it&#8217;d make us look weak, he was asked &#8220;Can we win?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In a rare moment of candor, Bush admitted no, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think you can win it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, just because the threat of terror hasn&#8217;t actually shrunk, and just because the US military is already stretched well past its limits, and just because civil liberties are increasingly a distant memory&#8230; and now we&#8217;re also admitting that we&#8217;re never actually going to win, that&#8217;s no good reason to stop.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s one thing Bush and Kerry can agree on. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George W. Bush was on the Today Show today. During the course of talking about how we mustn&#8217;t dare end the war on terror&#8230; ever, because it&#8217;d make us look weak, he was asked &#8220;Can we win?&#8221;. In a rare moment of candor, Bush admitted no, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think you can win it&#8221;. Of course, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}