{"id":55283,"date":"2014-09-18T11:04:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T15:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55283"},"modified":"2014-09-18T11:04:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T15:04:19","slug":"the-anti-war-whispers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55283","title":{"rendered":"The anti-war whispers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=55284\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55284\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Medea-Benjamin-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"Medea Benjamin\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Medea-Benjamin-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Medea-Benjamin-377x333.jpg 377w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Medea-Benjamin.jpg 549w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I know something about the anti-war protests of the last Iraq War, often times finding myself in the center armed with nothing but my camera. And, yeah, now that Obama has begun it&#8217;s second term safely, some of the anti-war creatures from the last decade&#8217;s protests are raising their slimy heads, a little. John Kerry spoke to them recently;<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=3790635766001&#038;w=500&#038;h=300\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\">video.foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>If I were John Kerry, I wouldn&#8217;t mention his own history as an anti-war socket puppet. That&#8217;s what defeated him in the 2004 presidential election. I do, however, find it delicious irony that he has to school Code Pink on ISIS to get his point across and that they interrupt him during his windbag lecture pointing out their hypocrisy on the entire issue because they support ISIS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/09\/17\/medias-anti-war-contingent-challenges-obama-downplaying-isis-threat\/\">Howard Kurtz<\/a> discusses the cautious whispers in the media against this, the latest deployment of troops to Iraq.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=3788158604001&#038;w=500&#038;h=300\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\">video.foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These days, of course, the press seems to be prodding a reluctant president into war. The coverage of ISIS and the endless re-running of images from the beheading videos caused a surge in public support for airstrikes in Iraq and Syria. But not everyone in the fourth estate is saluting.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Matthews may be the most visible of the naysayers. He used his MSNBC show to deride \u201cthis wild, angry push for war, another one in the land of Islam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was more: \u201cHere we go again, going in with all the field marshals of the op-ed pages urging us on. All the tongues, wagging, demanding, that the United States get itself right back in the middle of the latest outrage from Mesopotamia\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd yes, the bombs will work. People will die. There will be pictures in the world press of mothers holding babies and the wounded in their hospital beds, and there will be an outcry against us.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, I don&#8217;t like this latest deployment, but not because I&#8217;m wringing my hands over the brutality of it all, but because, no matter how many US troops will find themselves in Iraq for this third war, they won&#8217;t be allowed to fight the war that needs to be fought &#8211; for the third time. <\/p>\n<p>But, here come the kneejerk anti-war crowd who only oppose war because it&#8217;s war and they&#8217;re on the heels of the knee-jerk Democrats who think that war can be managed and made palatable to the American public, despite the fact that they&#8217;re preparing us for five years or mare of war in Iraq, once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know something about the anti-war protests of the last Iraq War, often times finding myself &hellip; <a title=\"The anti-war whispers\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55283\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The anti-war whispers<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-code-pink","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55283","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=55283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}