{"id":208,"date":"2003-10-27T17:45:04","date_gmt":"2003-10-28T00:45:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-10-27T17:45:04","modified_gmt":"2003-10-28T00:45:04","slug":"how-we-can-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/27\/how-we-can-win\/","title":{"rendered":"How we can win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s article by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/kwiatkowski\/kwiatkowski46.html\">Karen Kwiatkowski <\/a> at LewRockwell.com is an interesting take on the way to defeat the neocons &#8211; and generally, anyone who relies on the argument of force, rather than the force of argument. <\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m a fan of cultural history, which is relevant because art often reflects the undercurrents of society. So Col. Kwiatkowski&#8217;s column reminded me of an episode of a delightfully subversive SF show called <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.warnerbros.com\/babylon5\/home.html\">Babylon 5<\/a> (starring Yugoslav actress Mira Furlan, among others) from a few years back. At one point, an Earth officer &#8211; who had rebelled against the government that turned fascist using a terrorist attack as an excuse &#8211; is captured and interrogated by the fascists.<br \/>\nThe entire episode takes place in his cell, where the interrogator\/torturer tries to break Captain Sheridan in a cold, calculated manner &#8211; and keeps failing.<br \/>\nAt one point he asks the drugged, starved, poisoned, beaten, and utterly powerless prisoner, mocking his devotion to the truth:<br \/>\n&#8220;Can you win?&#8221;<br \/>\nSheridan replies: &#8220;Every time I say &#8216;No&#8217;.&#8221;<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s really all it takes. They never break him.<br \/>\nAnd they lose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s article by Karen Kwiatkowski at LewRockwell.com is an interesting take on the way to defeat the neocons &#8211; and generally, anyone who relies on the argument of force, rather than the force of argument. Now, I&#8217;m a fan of cultural history, which is relevant because art often reflects the undercurrents of society. So Col. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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-208","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\/208","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}