{"id":315,"date":"2003-12-03T04:35:44","date_gmt":"2003-12-03T11:35:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-12-03T04:35:44","modified_gmt":"2003-12-03T11:35:44","slug":"john-wayne-and-jane-addams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/03\/john-wayne-and-jane-addams\/","title":{"rendered":"John Wayne and Jane Addams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the yin-yang of U.S. imperialism David Brooks celebrates in <a href=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/12\/02\/opinion\/02BROO.html>this asinine op-ed<\/a>. Tell us more of this schizophrenic hermaphrodite and what it&#8217;s doing in Iraq, oh Oracle of Official Conservatism:<\/p>\n<p><i>[Capt. John Prior] was inside a gas station when a commotion erupted outside. A mob of people was furiously accusing a man of butting in line and stealing gasoline. Prior established that the man was merely a government inspector checking the quality of the fuel. Frazzled and exhausted, Prior took the chance to teach the mob a broader lesson: &#8220;The problem is that you people accuse each other without proof! That&#8217;s the problem!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another soldier, who keeps a Weblog, collects toys and passes them out to Iraqi children. He brought a pile of toys to an orphanage, but the paid staff at the place rushed the pile to grab the toys for themselves \u2014 &#8220;like sharks in a feeding frenzy,&#8221; he writes. He has learned that if he stations himself with an M-16 over the toys, things go smoothly.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re the U.S.A., and we&#8217;re here to make sure no one cuts in line! And you had better start sharing!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, dear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the yin-yang of U.S. imperialism David Brooks celebrates in this asinine op-ed. Tell us more of this schizophrenic hermaphrodite and what it&#8217;s doing in Iraq, oh Oracle of Official Conservatism: [Capt. John Prior] was inside a gas station when a commotion erupted outside. A mob of people was furiously accusing a man of butting [&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-315","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\/315","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=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}