{"id":360,"date":"2006-06-01T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=360"},"modified":"2006-06-01T11:39:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T11:39:00","slug":"response-to-haditha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"Response to Haditha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m an uncompromising pacifist.  There have been too many dangerous powers in history for me to be absolutely confident that diplomacy will always be a better alternative than war.<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;m a pacifist, nonetheless, those caveats noted.  And I think all human beings would be pacifists as well, if we fully understood what war does.<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/5036686.stm>Ethics training<\/a>  as a response assumes that the Haditha massacre was an aberration, an avoidable blemish, not how things are done.  This is a lie.  Haditha is to be expected.  Whether the war in question is a noble determined stand against evil or a petty oil-grab annexation is irrelevant to this truth &#8211; incidents like Haditha will happen during war.   We are human beings.  Give us guns and the idea of an enemy, and innocent people will die horribly.<br \/>\nWar makes us beasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m an uncompromising pacifist. There have been too many dangerous powers in history for me to be absolutely confident that diplomacy will always be a better alternative than war. But I&#8217;m a pacifist, nonetheless, those caveats noted. And I think all human beings would be pacifists as well, if we fully understood &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=360\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Response to Haditha<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-5O","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}