{"id":23613,"date":"2011-05-27T11:51:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T15:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23613"},"modified":"2011-05-27T11:54:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T15:54:37","slug":"the-false-outrage-of-think-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23613","title":{"rendered":"The false outrage of Think Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think Progress has their undies in a bunch because of this Rep. Allen West statement in the <a href=\"http:\/\/miamiherald.typepad.com\/nakedpolitics\/2011\/05\/as-house-looks-to-exit-afghanistan-allen-west-suggests-his-colleagues-should-get-shot-at-a-few-times.html\">Miami Herald<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/floor-action\/house\/163517-house-votes-to-limit-military-effort-in-libya\">a vote to end the Afghanistan War<\/a> which failed by just 12 votes;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIs the Taliban still fighting? I spent 2.5 years in Afghanistan. Just because you kill Osama bin Laden does not mean that the Taliban has stopped fighting,\u201d he said. \u201cNow can we fight a little smarter? Absolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Asked about efforts to curb U.S. involvement, West said, \u201cI would take these gentlemen over and let them get shot at a few times and maybe they\u2019d have a different opinion.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/05\/26\/allen-west-congressmen-shot\/\">Think Progress<\/a>, of course, extrapolates West&#8217;s comments to the Gifford shooting in Tucson;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With the tragic shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) still fresh in Americans\u2019 minds, West\u2019s comments are especially irresponsible. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can someone explain to me how West suggesting that his peers need a taste of war in order to rationally legislate it compare to Jarod Loughner&#8217;s shooting rampage? He&#8217;s only asking that they face the same realities their constituents stationed in Afghanistan face every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think Progress has their undies in a bunch because of this Rep. Allen West statement in &hellip; <a title=\"The false outrage of Think Progress\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23613\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The false outrage of Think Progress<\/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":[8,89,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-congress-sucks","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23613","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=23613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}