{"id":3972,"date":"2009-09-14T09:42:21","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T14:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=3972"},"modified":"2009-09-14T09:53:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T14:53:07","slug":"a-reactionary-politics-leads-to-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=3972","title":{"rendered":"A Reactionary Politics Leads To Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/tapped_archive?month=09&amp;year=2009&amp;base_name=tortures_failure\">Adam Serwer over at <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/tapped_archive?month=09&amp;year=2009&amp;base_name=tortures_failure\">The American Prospect<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We&#8217;re not seeing too many &#8220;professionals&#8221; argue the case for torture &#8212; instead we see those who believe fighting terrorists is about some kind of contest of will between Islam and the West romanticizing criminal behavior as &#8220;necessary&#8221; because, for some reason, they think protecting American society requires that take our cues from those we&#8217;re fighting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/09\/amateur-hour-at-the-protorture-circuit.html\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings them roughly in line with my earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=2771\">definition of reactionaries<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[R]eactionary groups are defined primarily by their worst fears of their enemy \u2013 which they then internalize and model their own organization on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]Adam Serwer over at The American Prospect: We&#8217;re not seeing too many &#8220;professionals&#8221; argue the case for torture &#8212; instead we see those who believe fighting terrorists is about some kind of contest of will between Islam and the West romanticizing criminal behavior as &#8220;necessary&#8221; because, for some reason, they think protecting American society requires [&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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[367,4,1285,458,9],"tags":[2247,58,922,10],"class_list":["post-3972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-security","category-politics","category-the-bush-legacy","category-the-opinionsphere","category-the-war-on-terrorism","tag-adam-serwer","tag-andrew-sullivan","tag-the-american-prospect","tag-torture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-124","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972","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=3972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3974,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972\/revisions\/3974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}