{"id":17,"date":"2007-10-12T15:05:23","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T20:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2008-10-08T15:07:32","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T20:07:32","slug":"what-we-lose-with-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"What we lose with war."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; George Orwell,\u00a0\u00a0 Homage to Catalonia, 1938<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Consolas\" size=\"3\">&#8220;Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8211; Voltaire\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/font><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Consolas\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The art of leadership&#8230;consists\u00a0in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adolf Hitler (both\u00a0from\u00a0Mein Kampf)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency.&#8221; &#8212; George Orwell,\u00a0\u00a0 Homage to Catalonia, 1938 &#8220;Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}