{"id":2237,"date":"2005-07-20T22:59:22","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T05:59:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-07-20T22:59:22","modified_gmt":"2005-07-21T05:59:22","slug":"death-the-claremont-institute-style-of-patriotism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/20\/death-the-claremont-institute-style-of-patriotism\/","title":{"rendered":"Death: The Claremont Institute Style of Patriotism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newest issue of the <i>Claremont Review of Books<\/i> (Summer 2005) begins an appeal for funds (&#8220;Make the Pledge&#8221;&#8211;p. 40) with this statement: &#8220;Our country is at war, and at the heart of a successful war effort must be the political conviction that this country is worth fighting and dying for.&#8221; What the Claremont warmongers really mean is that &#8220;this <i>government<\/i> is worth fighting and dying for.&#8221; But the 1,770 American soldiers who died in Iraq died in vain. They gave their lives for a government that is despicable in every way, beginning at the top. The country of the Founding Fathers invoked by The Claremont Institute is long gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newest issue of the Claremont Review of Books (Summer 2005) begins an appeal for funds (&#8220;Make the Pledge&#8221;&#8211;p. 40) with this statement: &#8220;Our country is at war, and at the heart of a successful war effort must be the political conviction that this country is worth fighting and dying for.&#8221; What the Claremont warmongers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"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-2237","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\/2237","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\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}