{"id":73428,"date":"2013-02-12T23:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T23:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=73428"},"modified":"2013-02-12T23:00:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T23:00:46","slug":"american-foreign-policy-have-our-war-lovers-learned-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/american-foreign-policy-have-our-war-lovers-learned-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"American Foreign Policy \u2013 Have Our War Lovers Learned Anything?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anti-Empire Report by Willam Blum.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past four decades, of all the reasons people over a certain age have given for their becoming radicalized against US foreign policy, the Vietnam War has easily been the one most often cited. And I myself am the best example of this that you could find. I sometimes think that if the war lovers who run the United States had known of this in advance they might have had serious second thoughts about starting that great historical folly and war crime.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicyjournal.com\/2013\/02\/08\/american-foreign-policy-have-our-war-lovers-learned-anything\/\">Foreign Policy Journal<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":73429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>American Foreign Policy \u2013 Have Our War Lovers Learned Anything? 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