{"id":841,"date":"2003-01-19T21:07:23","date_gmt":"2003-01-20T05:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/01\/19\/841.html"},"modified":"2003-01-19T21:07:23","modified_gmt":"2003-01-20T05:07:23","slug":"le-carr-on-the-iraq-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/01\/19\/le-carr-on-the-iraq-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Carr&eacute; on the Iraq situation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,482-543296,00.html\">piece by John Le Carr&eacute;<\/a> in the <cite>Times Online<\/cite> about American and British foreign policy and possible impending war.  It's something of a rant, but an interesting one.  Best bit is near the end:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\"But will we win, Daddy?\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Of course, child. It will all be over while you're still in bed.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Why?\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Because otherwise Mr Bush's voters will get terribly impatient and may decide not to vote for him.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"But will people be killed, Daddy?\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Nobody you know, darling. Just foreign people.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Can I watch it on television?\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Only if Mr Bush says you can.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"And afterwards, will everything be normal again? Nobody will do anything horrid any more?\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Hush child, and go to sleep.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, yes, it's sarcastic and snide and heavy-handed.  But I like it anyway.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting piece by John Le Carr&eacute; in the Times Online about American and British foreign policy and possible impending war&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}