{"id":642,"date":"2003-05-30T20:48:42","date_gmt":"2003-05-31T00:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=642"},"modified":"2003-05-30T20:48:42","modified_gmt":"2003-05-31T00:48:42","slug":"of-course-were-invulnerable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"Of course we&#8217;re invulnerable"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A55903-2003May29.html?nav=hptop_tb\"> &#8220;We try to be as culturally sensitive as possible, but we want to make sure everybody goes home alive,&#8221; said Capt. Paul Kuettner, an intelligence officer. &#8220;We&#8217;re not going to risk the lives of one of our soldiers to be culturally sensitive.&#8221;<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>This from the <em>Washington Post<\/em> (the href should appear from the blockquote) report of an uprising in a small Sunni town where the locals sacked the police station in protest against American house searches. They started, in turn, because someone fired an <span class=\"caps\">RPG <\/span>at some soldiers. This is beginning to look like the beginning of a very 20th century colonial war; what Kipling called &#8220;a savage war of peace&#8221;. But that&#8217;s not news.<\/p>\n\n<p>What struck me about this intelligence officer&#8217;s remark was the assumption that the Americans have a choice about being killed or not. They can be polite, but only as a derogation from the invulnerability that is their natural state. I don&#8217;t know where they taught him, but the point about war is that it&#8217;s not like that.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We try to be as culturally sensitive as possible, but we want to make sure everybody goes home alive,&#8221; said Capt. Paul Kuettner, an intelligence officer. &#8220;We&#8217;re not going to risk the lives of one of our soldiers to be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=642\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=642\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}