{"id":842,"date":"2004-04-07T13:05:06","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T17:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/resolve\/"},"modified":"2004-04-07T13:05:06","modified_gmt":"2004-04-07T17:05:06","slug":"resolve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/resolve\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard Rush Limbaugh parroting President Bush&#8217;s standard rhetoric on Americans needing &#8220;resolve&#8221; to deal with the situation in Iraq.  Limbaugh was saying we need to show the backbone of the troops (and their families), the ones who are actually paying the price for our militarized foreign policy experimentation.<br \/>\nHow does Limbaugh show his &#8220;resolve&#8221;?  What does he have on the line in this fight?  What kind of sacrifice has he been willing to make?  The only effort Bush has requested of Limbaugh or anyone (outside the military) during the &#8220;war on terror&#8221; is that he spend his tax cuts rather than hoard them.  What a burden he is shouldering.  What fortitude.  What courage.<br \/>\nI wonder how long Limbaugh and company would support the war in Iraq if the government did now what it has done in every previous war&#8211;raise taxes to pay for it.  How tough do you think Limbaugh&#8217;s &#8220;resolve&#8221; would be if Bush asked him to help foot the bill?<br \/>\nOne wonders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/resolve\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Resolve\"><p>I just heard Rush Limbaugh parroting President Bush&#8217;s standard rhetoric on Americans needing &#8220;resolve&#8221; to deal with the situation in Iraq. Limbaugh was saying we need to show the backbone of the troops (and their families), the ones who are actually paying the price for our militarized foreign policy experimentation. How does Limbaugh show his [&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-842","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\/842","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=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}