{"id":253,"date":"2003-11-10T16:17:50","date_gmt":"2003-11-10T23:17:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-11-10T16:17:50","modified_gmt":"2003-11-10T23:17:50","slug":"oh-iraq-will-be-like-germany-alright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/10\/oh-iraq-will-be-like-germany-alright\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Iraq Will Be Like Germany, Alright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/11062003\/postopinion\/opedcolumnists\/10058.htm>Ralph Peters<\/a> gulps the Ipecac of political correctness and vomits some lovely reflections on the perpetual collective guilt of Germans. For more on this phenomenon, read Paul Gottfried&#8217;s <a href=http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/gottfried\/gottfried53.html>&#8220;Hating the Krauts.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A slightly more benign version of Peters&#8217; view holds that Germans aren&#8217;t eternally guilty of Nazi crimes, they&#8217;re just eternally responsible for them. Uh, OK. I&#8217;ll let <a href=http:\/\/www.buzzmachine.com\/archives\/2003_11.html#005060>Jeff Jarvis<\/a> explain the difference (oh, wait&#8211;<a href=http:\/\/www.buzzmachine.com\/~jarvis\/cgi-bin\/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=5060>he can&#8217;t<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>Take note, Iraqis. You can expect to spend the rest of your political\/ethnic existence grovelling before the Kurds, Israelis, and Americans for the crimes of Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Peters gulps the Ipecac of political correctness and vomits some lovely reflections on the perpetual collective guilt of Germans. For more on this phenomenon, read Paul Gottfried&#8217;s &#8220;Hating the Krauts.&#8221; A slightly more benign version of Peters&#8217; view holds that Germans aren&#8217;t eternally guilty of Nazi crimes, they&#8217;re just eternally responsible for them. Uh, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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-253","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\/253","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}