{"id":2103,"date":"2005-05-14T01:28:39","date_gmt":"2005-05-14T08:28:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-05-14T01:28:39","modified_gmt":"2005-05-14T08:28:39","slug":"the-sith-and-us-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/14\/the-sith-and-us-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sith and US Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/photos\/perm\/starwars.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"7\" hspace=\"15\">What do Ancient Rome, Revolutionary France, The British Empire, The War Between the States, Nazi Germany, Vietnam, the &#8220;election&#8221; of Viktor Yushchenko and the war on terrorism have to do with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\">Star Wars<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>All will be explained on the Weekend Interview Show, Sat. 4-6 est.<\/p>\n<p>The first hour will be me talking and playing clips, and in the second hour, I&#8217;ll be talking with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mises.org\">Ludwig von Mises Institute<\/a> Scholar, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mises.org\/story\/1818\">Mark Thornton<\/a> all about it. <\/p>\n<p>(Yes, I know I&#8217;m a dork)<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> Arthur Silbur at <a href=\"http:\/\/coldfury.com\/reason\/?p=498\">The Light of Reason<\/a> has some words for that dumb sonofapodhoretz over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/thecorner\/05_05_08_corner-archive.asp#062751\"><i>National Review Online<\/i><\/a> who can&#8217;t quite figure out these movies made for 10-year-olds.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update II:<\/b> Show&#8217;s over. <a href=\"http:\/\/weekendinterviewshow.com\/\">Archives here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do Ancient Rome, Revolutionary France, The British Empire, The War Between the States, Nazi Germany, Vietnam, the &#8220;election&#8221; of Viktor Yushchenko and the war on terrorism have to do with Star Wars? All will be explained on the Weekend Interview Show, Sat. 4-6 est. The first hour will be me talking and playing clips, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-2103","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\/2103","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}