{"id":31,"date":"2003-07-13T18:20:09","date_gmt":"2003-07-14T01:20:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-07-13T18:20:09","modified_gmt":"2003-07-14T01:20:09","slug":"war-is-communism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/13\/war-is-communism\/","title":{"rendered":"War is Communism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More from the &#8220;New Baghdad Blogger&#8221; (an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.pacificnews.org\/news\/view_article.html?article_id=bdef4db453784667d43eb87b336235b2\" title=\"article\">article<\/a> on him is linked from our page today):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the military in itself is altruistic&#8230;communism&#8230;but how else could it possibly operate&#8230;selfless service&#8230;the good of the whole over the good of the one&#8230;the pay&#8230;the living conditions&#8230;think about it&#8230;soldiers are not free to make their own decisions&#8230;if they were how could anything difficult be completed&#8230;how could a platoon take a machine gun nest&#8230;or a war be won&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Admitted by a man in uniform: Only communism wins wars.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More from the &#8220;New Baghdad Blogger&#8221; (an article on him is linked from our page today): &#8220;the military in itself is altruistic&#8230;communism&#8230;but how else could it possibly operate&#8230;selfless service&#8230;the good of the whole over the good of the one&#8230;the pay&#8230;the living conditions&#8230;think about it&#8230;soldiers are not free to make their own decisions&#8230;if they were how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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-31","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\/31","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}