{"id":1195,"date":"2008-10-06T09:37:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T14:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2008-10-05T22:40:27","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T03:40:27","slug":"the-wrong-lessons-the-wrong-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1195","title":{"rendered":"The Wrong Lessons, The Wrong Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The New Yorker<\/em> summarizes why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/comment\/2008\/10\/13\/081013taco_talk_editors?printable=true\">John McCain is precisely the wrong man<\/a> to lead America in the War on Terror:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unimaginably painful personal experience taught McCain that war is above all a test of honor: maintain the will to fight on, be prepared to risk everything, and you will prevail. Asked during the first debate to outline \u201cthe lessons of Iraq,\u201d McCain said, \u201cI think the lessons of Iraq are very clear: that you cannot have a failed strategy that will then cause you to nearly lose a conflict.\u201d A soldier\u2019s answer\u2013\u2013but a statesman must have a broader view of war and peace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Yorker summarizes why John McCain is precisely the wrong man to lead America in the War on Terror: Unimaginably painful personal experience taught McCain that war is above all a test of honor: maintain the will to fight on, be prepared to risk everything, and you will prevail. Asked during the first debate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,45,367,4,458,9],"tags":[439],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-mccain","category-national-security","category-politics","category-the-opinionsphere","category-the-war-on-terrorism","tag-the-new-yorker"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-jh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}