{"id":2014,"date":"2006-07-17T12:56:29","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T16:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/07\/war_drums\/"},"modified":"2006-07-17T12:56:29","modified_gmt":"2006-07-17T16:56:29","slug":"war_drums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/07\/war_drums\/","title":{"rendered":"War Drums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as they used September 11 as a pretext to march into Iraq, the neocon crowd is now heralding the current conflict in Lebanon as an <a title=\"It's Our War\" href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/Content\/Public\/Articles\/000\/000\/012\/433fwbvs.asp\">opportunity to strike Iran<\/a>.  I expect the drum beats to get even louder in the coming days.<br \/>\nUPDATE:  Limbaugh calls conflict a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/posts\/2006\/07\/17\/limbaugh-invasion-is-a-gift-to-the-world\/\">&#8220;gift&#8221; to the world<\/a>.  In a moment of candor, he also admits that the Iraq war was never supposed to stop at Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/07\/war_drums\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to War Drums\"><p>Just as they used September 11 as a pretext to march into Iraq, the neocon crowd is now heralding the current conflict in Lebanon as an opportunity to strike Iran. I expect the drum beats to get even louder in the coming days. UPDATE: Limbaugh calls conflict a &#8220;gift&#8221; to the world. In a moment [&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-2014","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\/2014","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=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}