{"id":1295,"date":"2004-11-16T11:53:07","date_gmt":"2004-11-16T16:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/wars_uncounted_casualties\/"},"modified":"2004-11-16T11:53:07","modified_gmt":"2004-11-16T16:53:07","slug":"wars_uncounted_casualties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/11\/wars_uncounted_casualties\/","title":{"rendered":"War&#8217;s Uncounted Casualties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reason No. 7 that going to war is a bad thing: the people fighting become emotionally damaged and predisposed to <a title=\"Military investigates shooting of wounded insurgent - Nov 16, 2004\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/meast\/11\/15\/marine.probe\/index.html\">unnecessary violence<\/a>.<br \/>\nSooner or later we&#8217;re going to have tens of thousands of combat-hardened veterans returning to the United States.  If we&#8217;re lucky, the trauma they&#8217;ve experienced in Iraq will only translate into a few additional murders and instances of spousal abuse.  If we&#8217;re unlucky, we might have another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oklahomacitynationalmemorial.org\/\">Oklahoma City<\/a>.<br \/>\nOh yeah, I don&#8217;t think a video tape of a U.S. soldier shooting an injured man in a mosque will go over so well on the Arab streets, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/11\/wars_uncounted_casualties\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to War&#8217;s Uncounted Casualties\"><p>Reason No. 7 that going to war is a bad thing: the people fighting become emotionally damaged and predisposed to unnecessary violence. Sooner or later we&#8217;re going to have tens of thousands of combat-hardened veterans returning to the United States. If we&#8217;re lucky, the trauma they&#8217;ve experienced in Iraq will only translate into a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}