{"id":4136,"date":"2008-01-31T08:43:33","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T15:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/?p=590"},"modified":"2008-01-31T08:43:33","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T15:43:33","slug":"will-the-real-general-ripper-please-stand-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4136","title":{"rendered":"Will the Real General Ripper Please Stand Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/p>\n<p>Renegade Eye <a href=\"http:\/\/histologion.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/five-of-wests-most-senior-military.html\">posts<\/a> on Histologion:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/nato\/story\/0,,2244782,00.html\">The Guardian reports that five prominent military officers have submitted a &#8220;manifesto for a new NATO&#8221;<\/a> which advocates that<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The west must be ready to resort to a pre-emptive nuclear attack to try to halt the &#8220;imminent&#8221; spread of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>he manifesto as presented by the Guardian is like something out of an updated Dr. Strangelove movie. It purports to defend the West&#8217;s values, lamenting that &#8220;the west is struggling to summon the will to defend them&#8221;. The particular subset of the West&#8217;s values being defended hails from the colonial era, with a healthy dose of the &#8220;shoot first and see who&#8217;s dead later&#8221; ethos which has endeared billions of the unfortunate portion of humanity to the West and its values for some centuries now&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/categories\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/590\/\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/tags\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/590\/\" \/> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/590\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/590\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/590\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/590\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/590\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/590\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/590\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/590\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/590\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/590\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blogbullet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=743885&amp;post=590&amp;subd=blogbullet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renegade Eye posts on Histologion:<br \/>\nThe Guardian reports that five prominent military officers have submitted a &#8220;manifesto for a new NATO&#8221; which advocates that<br \/>\nThe west must be ready to resort to a pre-emptive nuclear attack to try to halt the &#8220;imminent&#8221; spread of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction&#8230;<br \/>\nhe manifesto as presented by the Guardian [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4136\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}