{"id":35093,"date":"2012-10-14T21:15:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T21:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/tom_engelhardt-an_america_eternally_at_war\/"},"modified":"2012-10-14T21:15:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T21:15:01","slug":"tom_engelhardt-an_america_eternally_at_war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35093","title":{"rendered":"Tom Engelhardt&#8211;An America eternally &#39;at war&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One could postulate explanations for why our policymakers, military and civilian, continue in such a repetitive and self-destructive vein. Yes, there is the military-industrial complex to be fed. Yes, we are interested in the control of crucial resources, especially energy, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s probably more reasonable to say that a deeply militarized mind-set and the global maneuvers that go with it are by now just a way of life in a Washington eternally &#8220;at war.&#8221; Military actions have become the tics of an overwrought great power with the equivalent of Tourette&#8217;s syndrome. They happen because they can&#8217;t help but happen, because they are engraved in the policy DNA of our national security complex. In other words, our leaders can&#8217;t help themselves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-engelhardt-military-spending-20121009,0,7940071.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One could postulate explanations for why our policymakers, military and civilian, continue in such a repetitive and self-destructive vein. Yes, there is the military-industrial complex to be fed. Yes, we are interested in the control of crucial resources, especially energy,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35093\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,143,168,144,151,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-politics-in-general","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}