{"id":1321,"date":"2007-02-01T01:04:17","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T01:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2007-02-01T01:05:03","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T01:05:03","slug":"william_arkin_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1321","title":{"rendered":"William Arkin, anti-chickenhawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Arkin <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/earlywarning\/2007\/01\/the_troops_also_need_to_suppor.html\" target=\"browser\">makes the anti-chickenhawk argument<\/a>, suggesting that troops unhappy with the antiwar political tone of the country&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8230;should be grateful that the American public, which by all polls overwhelmingly disapproves of the Iraq war and the President&#8217;s handling of it, do still offer their support to them, and their respect.<\/p>\n<p>\nThrough every Abu Ghraib and Haditha, through every rape and murder, the American public has indulged those in uniform, accepting that the incidents were the product of bad apples or even of some administration or command order.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2007\/01\/a_hearty_f_you_.html\" target=\"browser\">Blackfive<\/a>, Matt and Uncle Jimbo kind of have their way with Mr. Arkin, and I&#8217;ll leave the response to them.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ll point out, first that Mr. Arkin isn&#8217;t an opinion columnist at the Post &#8211; he&#8217;s the domain expert for the military there.<\/p>\n<p>And that he has quite an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/007804.php\" target=\"browser\">interesting history<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post&#8217;s military affairs editor steps in it.<\/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":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}