{"id":1961,"date":"2006-05-03T10:31:58","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T14:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/05\/white_guilt\/"},"modified":"2006-05-03T10:31:58","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T14:31:58","slug":"white_guilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/05\/white_guilt\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;White Guilt&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was listening to WGOP and the recently-arrested host was raving about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/editorial\/feature.html?id=110008318\">this Shelby Steele column<\/a>.  Out of curiosity I dig it up; turns out it&#8217;s merely another tortured attempt to argue that something bad&#8211;in this case the war in Iraq&#8211; is the result of liberal, Anti-American thought.  For some reason, we don&#8217;t try to wage combat at full force because ideologically, the world is against us.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/glenngreenwald.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/time-to-stop-feeling-guilty-and-start.html\">Glenn Greenwald<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/billmon.org\/archives\/002422.html\">Billmon<\/a> do a good job of smacking Steele&#8217;s piece down.<br \/>\nI merely add that as far as comparing our current conflict with the good ol&#8217; wars goes, haven&#8217;t these people been listening as Bush himself has proclaimed we&#8217;re now fighting a different kind of war.  You know, confronting IEDs and suicide bombers rather than columns of German tanks and artillery?  One would think that the difference in nature of this warfare would be obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/05\/white_guilt\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to &#8220;White Guilt&#8221;\"><p>Yesterday I was listening to WGOP and the recently-arrested host was raving about this Shelby Steele column. Out of curiosity I dig it up; turns out it&#8217;s merely another tortured attempt to argue that something bad&#8211;in this case the war in Iraq&#8211; is the result of liberal, Anti-American thought. For some reason, we don&#8217;t try [&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-1961","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\/1961","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=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}