{"id":1111,"date":"2008-08-11T20:45:07","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T00:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2008-08-11T20:45:07","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T00:45:07","slug":"before-you-get-your-war-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/08\/11\/before-you-get-your-war-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Before You Get Your War On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I expected that the Russia-Georgia confrontation would bring out some warmongering pronouncements from <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/WN\/story?id=5555394&#038;page=1\">old men eager to spill young blood<\/a>, but I didn&#8217;t realize that so many would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/152012\/page\/1\">lose all sense of perspective and reality<\/a> over it.<\/p>\n<p>So try to ignore these fools who seem to so desperately want us back in military confrontation with Russia, and learn a bit about the moving parts yourself.  There is no clear and easy answer, and the facts on the ground keep changing.  But reading up through the linked articles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boomantribune.com\/story\/2008\/8\/11\/113925\/867\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewashingtonnote.com\/archives\/2008\/08\/on_russiageorgi\/\">here<\/a> would be a good start to your understanding of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I expected that the Russia-Georgia confrontation would bring out some warmongering pronouncements from old men eager to spill young blood, but I didn&#8217;t realize that so many would lose all sense of perspective and reality over it. 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