{"id":61369,"date":"2016-12-15T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61369"},"modified":"2016-12-14T23:21:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T05:21:53","slug":"by-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61369","title":{"rendered":"By Christmas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The military is the smallest it<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"s1\">s been since WW II which makes sense as the Founders feared a standing army would become a tool to oppress the citizens and there is no threat to the <\/span><span class=\"s2\">U<\/span><span class=\"s1\">nited <\/span><span class=\"s2\">S<\/span><span class=\"s1\">tates that would justify maintaining one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">So why is our military engage<\/span><span class=\"s2\">d<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> in so many wars around the globe?\u00a0 Aside from Afghanistan, we also have boots on the ground in the Middle East and in Africa.\u00a0 What national security interest are they defending?\u00a0 Why not pull them out, bring them home, stand them down?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">Dunno. \u00a0Ask the guy with the Nobel Peace Prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The military is the smallest it\u2019s been since WW II which makes sense as the Founders feared a standing army would become a tool to oppress the citizens and there is no threat to the United States that would justify maintaining one. \u00a0So why is our military engaged in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61370,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61369\/revisions\/61370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}