{"id":4172,"date":"2008-02-11T08:55:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T15:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/11\/the-imperial-class-revisited\/"},"modified":"2008-02-11T08:55:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T15:55:39","slug":"the-imperial-class-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/11\/the-imperial-class-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"The Imperial Class, Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An important clarification of my piece on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/justin\/?articleid=12343\">The Imperial Class<\/a>&#8221; posted this morning: the rank-and-file military are not automatically inducted into the ranks of the imperial class, and, indeed, their interests are diametrically opposed to the agenda of the War Party \u00c2\u00a0and the military-industrial-congressional complex. That&#8217;s why we have seen some of the most persistent, and effective opposition to this administration&#8217;s Middle East project coming from the top ranks of the military, from generals who want to protect their soldiers &#8212; and the military machine they have built up into a peerless fighting force &#8212; from wanton destruction and useless sacrifice on the altar of the neocons&#8217; vanity.<\/p>\n<p>US soldiers are doing a job: protecting the country. The interventionists want to make their job 100 times harder &#8212; not only by invading every &#8220;enemy,&#8221; both real and imagined, in sight, but also by making the US itself more vulnerable by creating armies of anti-Americans eager to do us harm.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder Ron Paul, the\u00c2\u00a0sole antiwar Republican presidential aspirant,\u00c2\u00a0received the <a href=\"http:\/\/thirdpartywatch.com\/2008\/02\/02\/ron-pauls-military-fundraising-totals-republican-leaders-dont-really-support-the-troops\/\">larges<\/a>t amount of contributions from US military personnel, more than all the others combined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important clarification of my piece on &#8220;The Imperial Class&#8221; posted this morning: the rank-and-file military are not automatically inducted into the ranks of the imperial class, and, indeed, their interests are diametrically opposed to the agenda of the War Party \u00c2\u00a0and the military-industrial-congressional complex. That&#8217;s why we have seen some of the most persistent, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4172","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\/4172","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}