{"id":1985,"date":"2005-05-17T19:10:15","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T00:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/moyers-on-tomlinson\/"},"modified":"2005-05-17T19:10:15","modified_gmt":"2005-05-18T00:10:15","slug":"moyers-on-tomlinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/moyers-on-tomlinson\/","title":{"rendered":"moyers on tomlinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the ministry of truth gets a small poke in the eye from bill moyers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/05\/16\/1329245\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201dSo I put this on as a modest repose to men with flags in their lapels who shoot missiles from the safety of Washington think tanks. or argue that sacrifice is good as long as they don\u2019t have to make it,  or approve of bribing governments to join the \u2018Coalition of the Willing.\u2019 I put it on to remind myself that not every patriot thinks we should do to the people of Baghdad what bin Laden did to us. The flag belongs to the country, not to the government, and it reminds me that it\u2019s not un-American to think that war, except in self defense, is a failure of moral imagination, political nerve and diplomacy. Come to think of it, standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the ministry of truth gets a small poke in the eye from bill moyers here. \u201dSo I put this on as a modest repose to men with flags in their lapels who shoot missiles from the safety of Washington think tanks. or argue that sacrifice is good as long as they don\u2019t have to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}