{"id":706,"date":"2004-04-07T19:50:22","date_gmt":"2004-04-08T02:50:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-04-07T19:50:22","modified_gmt":"2004-04-08T02:50:22","slug":"future-hitlers-for-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/07\/future-hitlers-for-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Hitlers for America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/comments.php?id=P249_0_1_0>recurring<\/a> <a href=http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/comments.php?id=P254_0_1_0_C>feature<\/a> in which we keep an eye on the hysteria-inducing madmen of tomorrow, especially our favorite Central Asian megalomaniac.<\/p>\n<ul><a href=http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,5744,9214690%255E29677,00.html>Turkmen Leader Attacks Tooth Fashion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ANXIOUS to banish all signs of backwardness from his remote desert nation Turkmenistan&#8217;s president on Tuesday gave a word of advice to the country&#8217;s youth: resist the temptation to replace your teeth with gold ones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t be offended,&#8221; Saparmurat Niyazov told a female student who caught his eye while she made a speech at the Saparmurat Niyazov Agricultural University. &#8220;But whatever some young fellows tell you, white teeth look better.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Besides if you keep your original teeth you can manage harder food,&#8221; Niyazov said at the ceremony broadcast on state television. <\/p>\n<p>The Turkmen leader, officially known as Saparmurat Turkmenbashi (father-of-all-Turkmen), has been anxious to selectively remodel this former Soviet republic in his own image, throwing up vast tower blocks and banishing farm animals from the streets of the capital Ashgabat. <\/p>\n<p>Recently he has taken to berating young people for their allegedly sloppy appearance and &#8220;wayward&#8221; behaviour.<\/ul>\n<p>Sounds like Hitler to me! When will Christopher Hitchens and co. get on this? Whatever happened to whiskey, democracy, sexy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recurring feature in which we keep an eye on the hysteria-inducing madmen of tomorrow, especially our favorite Central Asian megalomaniac. Turkmen Leader Attacks Tooth Fashion ANXIOUS to banish all signs of backwardness from his remote desert nation Turkmenistan&#8217;s president on Tuesday gave a word of advice to the country&#8217;s youth: resist the temptation 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-706","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\/706","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=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}