{"id":58201,"date":"2026-03-17T15:17:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=58201"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:19:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:19:48","slug":"william-astore-the-american-experiment-is-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/17\/william-astore-the-american-experiment-is-failing\/","title":{"rendered":"William Astore: The American Experiment Is Failing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/bracingviews.substack.com\/\">Bracing Views<\/a> with the author\u2019s permission.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a recent podcast I did with Jim Wohlgemuth and Harvey Bennett, Vietnam War veterans both, about the Iran War.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/creators.spotify.com\/pod\/profile\/jim-wohlgemuth\/embed\/episodes\/Vets-for-Peace-with-Bill-Astore--Eisenhower-Media-Net--a-war-without-a-clear-strategy--Clearly-not-in-the-US-interest-e3g8kvu\/a-ach85gi\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With a bonus song at the end.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a different link if the above doesn\u2019t work:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/creators.spotify.com\/pod\/profile\/jim-wohlgemuth\">https:\/\/creators.spotify.com\/pod\/profile\/jim-wohlgemuth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My thanks to Jim and Harvey for having me on their show.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, Joe Kent, the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center in the Trump administration, has resigned in protest against the war with Iran. His <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/104173f6-c3ff-4902-931c-45a6603c3dc7?j=eyJ1IjoiZGc1bSJ9.AtkIESPQ8gZGIxfZckZts7Nr6Ami6aEuderfNS6aYrI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">resignation letter<\/a> is well worth reading.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d27srd8s9736cr.cloudfront.net\/2026\/03\/joe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58212\" src=\"https:\/\/d27srd8s9736cr.cloudfront.net\/2026\/03\/joe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1100\" height=\"1304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d27srd8s9736cr.cloudfront.net\/2026\/03\/joe-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/d27srd8s9736cr.cloudfront.net\/2026\/03\/joe-864x1024.jpg 864w, https:\/\/d27srd8s9736cr.cloudfront.net\/2026\/03\/joe-768x910.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d27srd8s9736cr.cloudfront.net\/2026\/03\/joe-1080x1280.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/d27srd8s9736cr.cloudfront.net\/2026\/03\/joe.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/a>Many Trump loyalists are mystified by the president\u2019s tight embrace of Zionist Israel and his pursuit of war against Iran. Whatever Trump is up to, it\u2019s not MAGA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author\u2019s permission. Here\u2019s a recent podcast I did with Jim Wohlgemuth and Harvey Bennett, Vietnam War veterans both, about the Iran War. With a bonus song at the end. Here\u2019s a different link if the above doesn\u2019t work: https:\/\/creators.spotify.com\/pod\/profile\/jim-wohlgemuth My thanks to Jim and Harvey for having me on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_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":[758],"class_list":["post-58201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":"Hellacious Wars Will Be Our Downfall"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58201","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\/290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58213,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58201\/revisions\/58213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58201"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=58201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}