{"id":381,"date":"2003-03-18T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-19T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreness.com\/blog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2003-03-18T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-19T02:51:00","slug":"conflicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/archives\/381","title":{"rendered":"conflicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>is it possible to prevent violence with violence?<\/p>\n<p>in a perfect world, there would be no need for violence. does an imperfect world necessitate violence?<\/p>\n<p>if this movement against iraq is really the right thing to do, why isn&#8217;t the rest of the world behind us? the fact that the UK and spain are the chief allies here does indeed contribute to the feeling of imperialism&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>if it&#8217;s not the right thing to do, then why do 2\/3 of americans support bush?<\/p>\n<p>how absurd is it to use the american public at large as a moral compas?<\/p>\n<p>if the US does not take action, would somebody else?<\/p>\n<p>is there even a need to take action?<\/p>\n<p>exactly how much of this is related to the man George W Bush?<\/p>\n<p>I actually don&#8217;t know. I&#8217;ve been reading a bit more lately, but I still feel like there&#8217;s no way I could ever posses enough information to make what I would consider to be a solid and defenseable decision on the matter. As I talk to both proponents and opponents, I understand and relate to most of the arguments&#8230; I have gone back and forth enough times that I&#8217;ve stopped trying to have an opinion about it, which is kinda pathetic considering that this is fairly important stuff.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also hard for me to seperate my feelings for Bush from the actual issues at hand, in part because I can&#8217;t shake (or positively confirm) the idea that he is part of the problem.<\/p>\n<p>blar.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the one thing I like about the current homeland status is the textual descriptor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>is it possible to prevent violence with violence? in a perfect world, there would be no need for violence. does an imperfect world necessitate violence? if this movement against iraq is really the right thing to do, why isn&#8217;t the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/archives\/381\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}