{"id":1905,"date":"2005-03-08T23:57:30","date_gmt":"2005-03-09T06:57:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-03-08T23:57:30","modified_gmt":"2005-03-09T06:57:30","slug":"recent-letters-march-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/08\/recent-letters-march-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Letters, March 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/letters\/?articleid=5079\">Backtalk<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Greg Brownfield: deliberate irrationalism is one of the pillars of <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/article.php?articleid=5070\">fascism<\/a> &#8212; &#038; the Bushies have rejected the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.warblogging.com\/archives\/000935.php\">reality-based community<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scott Erb, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Maine at Farmington: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/pat\/?articleid=5015\">Democracy <i>or<\/i> Republic<\/a>? <i>Democracy<\/i> does not mean majoritarianism.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Barrett: Just say no to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/whitehurst\/?articleid=5049\">the ASVAB<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Matthew Barganier: And the <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2004\/03\/13\/MNG905K1BC1.DTL\">special skills draft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>David Wilmsen, Contributing Editor, <a href=\"http:\/\/tbsjournal.com\/\">Transnational Broadcasting Studies<\/a>, Arabic and Translation Studies, The American University in Cairo: Lebanon already IS a democracy. <\/p>\n<p>Scott Horton: And Israel isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/letters\/?articleid=5079\"><i>more<\/i><\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnewyork.com\/topstories\/topstories_story_065094819.html\/resources_storyPrintableView\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.viacomlocalnetworks.com\/images_sizedimage_065094700\/med\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"8\" hspace=\"8\" border=\"0\"><\/a><b>World democratic revolution or Pentagonistan?:<\/b> The CIA <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnewyork.com\/topstories\/topstories_story_065094819.html\/resources_storyPrintableView\">is airmailing people to prisons in the world&#8217;s worst human rights abusing dictatorships<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Backtalk: Greg Brownfield: deliberate irrationalism is one of the pillars of fascism &#8212; &#038; the Bushies have rejected the &#8220;reality-based community.&#8221; Scott Erb, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Maine at Farmington: Democracy or Republic? Democracy does not mean majoritarianism. Steve Barrett: Just say no to the ASVAB. Matthew Barganier: And the special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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-1905","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\/1905","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}