{"id":3124,"date":"2006-11-29T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T05:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/29\/the-perils-of-ignoring-the-boring-country\/"},"modified":"2006-11-29T22:56:49","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T05:56:49","slug":"the-perils-of-ignoring-the-boring-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/29\/the-perils-of-ignoring-the-boring-country\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perils of Ignoring the Boring Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If named the Liberal Party&#8217;s leader this weekend, Michael Ignatieff would be a candidate to become [Canada&#8217;s] next prime minister.&#8221; Read all about it over at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2006\/1130\/p06s02-woam.html\"><em>Christian Science Monitor<\/em><\/a>, if you like. Why should you care? Well, this is the same Michael Ignatieff who <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ksg.harvard.edu\/news\/opeds\/2004\/ignatieff_less_evils_nytm_050204.htm\">wrote<\/a>, in 2004:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mind you, this is the prospective <em>Liberal<\/em> leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If named the Liberal Party&#8217;s leader this weekend, Michael Ignatieff would be a candidate to become [Canada&#8217;s] next prime minister.&#8221; Read all about it over at the Christian Science Monitor, if you like. Why should you care? Well, this is the same Michael Ignatieff who wrote, in 2004: To defeat evil, we may have to [&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-3124","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\/3124","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=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}