{"id":387,"date":"2003-12-28T23:50:15","date_gmt":"2003-12-29T04:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/spreading_something\/"},"modified":"2003-12-28T23:50:15","modified_gmt":"2003-12-29T04:50:15","slug":"spreading_something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/spreading_something\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreading Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/week_2003_12_21.html#002351\">Joshua Marshall<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Is it really reasonable to expect that the values which undergird liberal democracy in America will be effectively spread abroad by the most illiberal people in America? It&#8217;s a good question. Think about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess it depends on what we are <i>really<\/i> attempting to accomplish in Iraq.  Are we attempting to export Jeffersonian democracy to the Iraqi people?  Or our we merely trying to establish a Middle East government more friendly to our strategic and corporate interests?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s conceivable that this administration could accomplish the latter.  I&#8217;m not holding my breath for the former.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/spreading_something\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Spreading Something\"><p>Joshua Marshall: Is it really reasonable to expect that the values which undergird liberal democracy in America will be effectively spread abroad by the most illiberal people in America? It&#8217;s a good question. Think about it. I guess it depends on what we are really attempting to accomplish in Iraq. Are we attempting to export [&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-387","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\/387","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=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}