{"id":15296,"date":"2012-06-04T15:25:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T23:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=15296"},"modified":"2012-06-04T15:25:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T23:25:09","slug":"why-we-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/04\/why-we-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c_VD0pE37vo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s no Kony 2012!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m enough of a cynic to know that no one learns anything from the past, at least Eugene Jarecki can sleep well knowing he was right. <\/p>\n<p>While Jarecki&#8217;s documentary &#8220;Why We Fight&#8221; was released in 2005, it (sadly) seems just as fresh as it did seven years ago. Featuring: John McCain, the late Chalmers Johnson, Richard Perle, William Kristol,  Gore Vidal, Joseph Cirincione, Karen Kwiatkowski and the family of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. <\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campaigniran.org\/casmii\/index.php?q=taxonomy\/term\/973\">Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no Kony 2012! I&#8217;m enough of a cynic to know that no one learns anything from the past, at least Eugene Jarecki can sleep well knowing he was right. While Jarecki&#8217;s documentary &#8220;Why We Fight&#8221; was released in 2005, it (sadly) seems just as fresh as it did seven years ago. Featuring: John McCain, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[77,22,414,95,85,38,167,3,10],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-15296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-kristol","category-culture","category-hollywood","category-intervention","category-john-mccain","category-media","category-military-industrial-complex","category-news","category-war-party"],"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\/15296","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15296"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15302,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15296\/revisions\/15302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15296"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}