{"id":139171,"date":"2014-09-11T13:50:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T13:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=139171"},"modified":"2014-09-11T19:49:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T19:49:59","slug":"perpetual-war-fine-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/media-news\/perpetual-war-fine-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Perpetual War Is Fine With the New York Times After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Norman Solomon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The editorial board of the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0has an Orwellian knack for war. Sixteen months ago, when President Obama gave oratorical lip service to ending \u201cperpetual war,\u201d the newspaper quickly touted that end as a democratic necessity. But now &#8212; in response to Obama\u2019s speech <span data-term=\"goog_1011148407\">Wednesday<\/span> night announcing escalation of war without plausible end &#8212; the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>\u00a0editorial voice is with the endless war program.<\/p>\n<p>Under the headline \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/24\/opinion\/obama-vows-to-end-of-the-perpetual-war.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\">The End of the Perpetual War<\/a>,\u201d published on May 23, 2013, the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>\u00a0was vehement, calling a new Obama speech \u201cthe most important statement on counterterrorism policy since the 2001 attacks, a momentous turning point in post-9\/11 America.\u201d The editorial added: \u201cFor the first time, a president stated clearly and unequivocally that the state of perpetual warfare that began nearly 12 years ago is unsustainable for a democracy and must come to an end in the not-too-distant future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>\u00a0editorial board was sweeping in its conclusion: \u201cMr. Obama told the world that the United States must return to a state in which counterterrorism is handled, as it always was before 2001, primarily by law enforcement and the intelligence agencies. That shift is essential to preserving the democratic system and rule of law for which the United States is fighting, and for repairing its badly damaged global image.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/warisacrime.org\/content\/perpetual-war-fine-new-york-times-after-all\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norman Solomon The editorial board of the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0has an Orwellian knack for war. Sixteen months ago, when President Obama gave oratorical lip service to ending \u201cperpetual war,\u201d the newspaper quickly touted that end as a democratic necessity. But now &#8212; in response to Obama\u2019s speech Wednesday night announcing escalation of war without plausible end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,7,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-139171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-media-news","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}