{"id":2155,"date":"2013-09-03T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2013-09-02T22:58:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T03:58:06","slug":"2155","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2155","title":{"rendered":"WAR: WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 18px; color: #000000; font-family: Times;\"><a class=\"lightBox\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: #ff0000; text-decoration: none; position: relative; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" title=\"U.N.: Syrian war criminals should face ICC\" href=\"http:\/\/media.salon.com\/2013\/02\/mideast-syria.jpeg20-1280x960.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; max-width: 580px; width: 580px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: auto;\" title=\"U.N.: Syrian war criminals should face ICC\" alt=\"U.N.: Syrian war criminals should face ICC\" src=\"http:\/\/media.salon.com\/2013\/02\/mideast-syria.jpeg20-620x412.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>I am sure many of you will remember the famous anti-Vietnam song which was first sung by The Temptations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Syria got me thinking about whether the song was correct in saying war is good for &#8220;absolutely nothing.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It is maddening navigating with wisdom in a chaotic, confused, and fallen world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No doubt there are issues of justice and charity to grapple with when it comes to grotesque events like the war in Syria, but what are we as Americans to do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I am not so sure our overall philosophy (do we even have one?) of military might is the right one. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I am not a full-blown pacifist, but I do think we get involved militarily in far too many wars. \u00a0Precious resources, most prominently human life, get squandered far too often. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Perhaps a debate about our overall philosophy is due, an extended conversation where Americans from all parties meet at the table of ideas. \u00a0Naive I know to dream about such things, but anything shy of it seems to perpetuate the problem we regularly find ourselves in: a selective and inconsistent strategy that has us calling on the military when there are other non military options which should have been employed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you think?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure many of you will remember the famous anti-Vietnam song which was first sung by The Temptations. Syria got me thinking about whether the song was correct in saying war is good for &#8220;absolutely nothing.&#8221; It is maddening navigating with wisdom in a chaotic, confused, and fallen world. No doubt there are issues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}