{"id":31803,"date":"2018-09-14T09:59:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T17:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=31803"},"modified":"2018-09-14T16:08:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T00:08:17","slug":"president-trumps-new-pax-americana-col-douglas-macgregor-at-ron-paul-institute-media-war-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/14\/president-trumps-new-pax-americana-col-douglas-macgregor-at-ron-paul-institute-media-war-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;President Trump&#8217;s New Pax Americana&#8217; \u2013 Col. Douglas Macgregor at Ron Paul Institute Media &#038; War Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do we have any reason at all to hope for a less militaristic foreign policy under President Trump? Col. Macgregor has seen war up close \u2013 he led the charge against the Iraqi Republican Guard in the 1991 Iraq war \u2013 and he&#8217;s had enough of the US empire. In his Media &#038; War Conference speech he offers a way out of the neocon militarism that dominates Washington:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ymVR5be2Yf8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" 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>Do we have any reason at all to hope for a less militaristic foreign policy under President Trump? Col. Macgregor has seen war up close \u2013 he led the charge against the Iraqi Republican Guard in the 1991 Iraq war \u2013 and he&#8217;s had enough of the US empire. In his Media &#038; War Conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"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-31803","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\/31803","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\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31803"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31811,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31803\/revisions\/31811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31803"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=31803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}