{"id":414,"date":"2004-04-09T03:09:04","date_gmt":"2004-04-09T03:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:33","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:33","slug":"tacitus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"Tacitus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go read Tacitus &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tacitus.org\/story\/2004\/4\/8\/11752\/76610\" target=\"browser\">In Search of Lost Time<\/a>,&#8221; about events in Iraq. Now.<\/p>\n<p>I pretty much agree with everything he&#8217;s saying, especially <b>this<\/b>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;In fact, fellow American, there are only two things in the world that can stop them, and make their earnest sacrifice for glory or for naught: <\/p>\n<p>You and me.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> I&#8217;ll add a comment from Clint Smith that seems somehow appropriate as well: &#8220;<i>A gun isn&#8217;t a magic wand that will make your problems disappear when you wave it.<\/i>&#8221; The same is true of armies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go read Tacitus &#8220;In Sesarch of Lost Time,&#8221; about events in Iraq. Now. I pretty much agree with everything he&#8217;s saying, especially this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}