{"id":28954,"date":"2017-05-05T13:48:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T21:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=28954"},"modified":"2017-05-05T13:48:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T21:48:59","slug":"ron-paul-says-pre-emptive-war-is-a-pandoras-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/05\/ron-paul-says-pre-emptive-war-is-a-pandoras-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul says Pre-emptive War Is a Pandora&#8217;s Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We have to fight them over there, so we won&#8217;t have to fight them here.&#8221; Was it George W. Bush? Nope. The statement goes all the way back to President Truman, who warned that if we didn&#8217;t fight the Korean war we&#8217;d have to fight commies in Wichita. The whole idea of pre-emptive war is nothing more than false propaganda. Today&#8217;s Ron Paul Liberty Report takes on the myths that lead us to war:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qft9SThCapk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We have to fight them over there, so we won&#8217;t have to fight them here.&#8221; Was it George W. Bush? Nope. The statement goes all the way back to President Truman, who warned that if we didn&#8217;t fight the Korean war we&#8217;d have to fight commies in Wichita. The whole idea of pre-emptive war is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-28954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"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\/28954","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\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28954"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28957,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28954\/revisions\/28957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28954"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=28954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}