{"id":1494,"date":"2004-09-22T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-22T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2018-08-01T08:42:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T13:42:43","slug":"1494","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/22\/1494\/","title":{"rendered":"Steinberg on Federal Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s his potshot from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/steinberg\/cst-nws-stein22.html\" target=\"_new\">today&#8217;s column<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>George W. Bush&#8217;s claim that our goal is to install democracy in Iraq is a recipe for quagmire. Iraq is a Frankenstein&#8217;s monster of sects cobbled together by the British, a non-nation that flies apart without a tyrant holding it together. America can&#8217;t be the new tyrant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The United States is also a Frankenstein&#8217;s monster of sects, races, and lifestyles cobbled together which seems to hold together without a tyrant.<\/p>\n<p>Which isn&#8217;t to say that certain leaders aren&#8217;t in favor of a tyranny of our betters in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s his potshot from today&#8217;s column: George W. Bush&#8217;s claim that our goal is to install democracy in Iraq is a recipe for quagmire. Iraq is a Frankenstein&#8217;s monster of sects cobbled together by the British, a non-nation that flies apart without a tyrant holding it together. America can&#8217;t be the new tyrant. The United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21060,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/21060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}