{"id":12931,"date":"2009-07-24T06:23:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T11:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=12931"},"modified":"2009-07-24T06:23:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T11:23:04","slug":"another-obama-mistatement-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12931","title":{"rendered":"Another Obama mistatement of history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s news is a statement from Obama on his vision of the end of the war in Afghanistan. He doesn&#8217;t like the word &#8220;victory&#8221;, apparently (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/07\/23\/obama-victory-necessarily-goal-afghanistan\/?test=latestnews\">Fox News<\/a> link);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m always worried about using the word &#8216;victory,&#8217; because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur,&#8221; Obama told ABC News.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Find me the Emperor Hirohito in this picture of the surrender of Japan to General Richard K. Sutherland;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/shigemitsu-signs-surrender.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12932\" title=\"shigemitsu-signs-surrender\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/shigemitsu-signs-surrender.jpg\" alt=\"shigemitsu-signs-surrender\" width=\"503\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/shigemitsu-signs-surrender.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/shigemitsu-signs-surrender-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOr in this picture of the Japanese delegation;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/surrender_of_japan_-_uss_missouri.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12933\" title=\"surrender_of_japan_-_uss_missouri\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/surrender_of_japan_-_uss_missouri.jpg\" alt=\"surrender_of_japan_-_uss_missouri\" width=\"504\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/surrender_of_japan_-_uss_missouri.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/surrender_of_japan_-_uss_missouri-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYeah, Hirohito wasn&#8217;t there. Oh, and if you&#8217;re wondering what Obama wants instead of victory;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not dealing with nation states at this point. We&#8217;re concerned with Al Qaeda and the Taliban, Al Qaeda&#8217;s allies,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So when you have a non-state actor, a shadowy operation like Al Qaeda, our goal is to make sure they can&#8217;t attack the United States.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More brilliance. I&#8217;m really glad that&#8217;s his goal. I was wondering about that, actually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s news is a statement from Obama on his vision of the end of the &hellip; <a title=\"Another Obama mistatement of history\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12931\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another Obama mistatement of history<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}