{"id":14353,"date":"2010-06-29T16:10:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T22:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14353"},"modified":"2010-06-29T16:10:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T22:10:09","slug":"some-ugly-truths-about-quitter-mcchrystals-swan-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14353","title":{"rendered":"Some ugly truths about quitter McChrystal&#8217;s swan song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Huber, from his article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/huber\/2010\/06\/28\/what-me-mcworry\/\">What, Me McWorry?<\/a>&#8220;, on Stanley McChrystal&#8217;s swan song in <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If they\u2019d wanted to party with a reporter they could trust to keep his mouth shut, they would have brought along Dexter Filkins of the <em>New York Times<\/em>, who has dutifully kept mum about their shenanigans and faithfully passed along every propaganda message they\u2019ve fed him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Related<\/em>:<br \/>\n<strong>\u201cAmericans Don\u2019t Flinch\u201d \u2013 They Duck!<br \/>\nBy Kathy Kelly and Dan Pearson<br \/>\nCo-coordinators of Voices for Creative Nonviolence<\/strong><br \/>\nJune 24,  2010<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In accepting General McChrystal\u2019s resignation, President Obama said that  McChrystal\u2019s departure represented a change in personnel, not a change in  policy. \u201cAmericans don\u2019t flinch in the face of difficult truths or difficult tasks.\u201d he stated, \u201cWe persist and we persevere.\u201d Yet, President Obama and the U.S. people don\u2019t face up to the ugly truth that, in Afghanistan, the U.S. has  routinely committed atrocities against innocent civilians. By ducking that  truth, the U.S. reinforces a sense of exceptionalism, which, in other parts of the world, causes resentment and antagonism.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vcnv.org\/americans-don-t-flinch-they-duck\">Read the entire article.<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Huber, from his article &#8220;What, Me McWorry?&#8220;, on Stanley McChrystal&#8217;s swan song in Rolling Stone: If they\u2019d wanted to party with a reporter they could trust to keep his mouth shut, they would have brought along Dexter Filkins of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14353\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3Jv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14353"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14359,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14353\/revisions\/14359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}