{"id":3628,"date":"2007-09-09T23:08:21","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T06:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/09\/never-before-has-the-phrase-in-its-own-way-been-asked-to-carry-so-much-weight\/"},"modified":"2007-09-09T23:08:21","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T06:28:09","slug":"never-before-has-the-phrase-in-its-own-way-been-asked-to-carry-so-much-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3628","title":{"rendered":"Never before has the phrase "in its own way" been asked to carry so much weight"},"content":{"rendered":"

From a review <\/a>of World War IV<\/em>, the new book defending Bush’s Iraq policy, by Norman Podhoretz:<\/p>\n

The most astonishing part of “World War IV” is Podhoretz\u2019s incessant use of violent imagery to describe American politics. Critics of the Iraq war represent a “domestic insurgency” with a “life-and-death stake\u201d in America\u2019s defeat. And their dispute with the president\u2019s supporters represents \u201ca war of ideas on the home front.” “In its own way,” Podhoretz declares, “this war of ideas is no less bloody than the one being fought by our troops in the Middle East.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From a review of World War IV, the new book defending Bush’s Iraq policy, by Norman Podhoretz: The most astonishing part of “World War IV” is Podhoretz\u2019s incessant use of violent imagery to describe American politics. Critics of the Iraq … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}