{"id":380,"date":"2008-03-31T08:07:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T13:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=380"},"modified":"2008-03-30T22:12:33","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T03:12:33","slug":"a-harsh-judgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"A harsh judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Excerpts from my Journals<br \/>\n<\/strong>[Dated July 16, 2003.]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If we find W.M.D. in Iraq, but lose Iraq, Mr. Bush will not only go down as a failed president, but one who made the world even more dangerous for Americans. If we find no W.M.D., but build a better Iraq &#8211; one that proves that a multiethnic, multireligious Arab state can rule itself in a decent way &#8211; Mr. Bush will survive his hyping of the W.M.D. issue, and the world will be a more hospitable and safer place for all Americans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9F03E4DD153CF935A25754C0A9659C8B63&amp;sec=&amp;spon=&amp;pagewanted=print\">Thomas Friedman in the <em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpts from my Journals [Dated July 16, 2003.] If we find W.M.D. in Iraq, but lose Iraq, Mr. Bush will not only go down as a failed president, but one who made the world even more dangerous for Americans. If we find no W.M.D., but build a better Iraq &#8211; one that proves that a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[51,28,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts-from-my-journals","category-iraq","category-politics","category-the-war-on-terrorism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-68","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","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=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}