{"id":137665,"date":"2019-07-15T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=137665"},"modified":"2019-07-14T12:39:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T11:39:22","slug":"most-veterans-say-americas-wars-are-a-waste-no-ones-listening-to-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/07\/most-veterans-say-americas-wars-are-a-waste-no-ones-listening-to-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Veterans Say America\u2019s Wars Are a Waste. No One\u2019s Listening to Them."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>12 Jul 2019 &#8211;<em> There&#8217;s a widening gap between Washington&#8217;s bipartisan militarism and veterans&#8217; bipartisan war-skepticism.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_137666\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/us-military-pentagon-vets.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-137666\" class=\"wp-image-137666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/us-military-pentagon-vets.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/us-military-pentagon-vets.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/us-military-pentagon-vets-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/us-military-pentagon-vets-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-137666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spencer Platt\/Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In spite of his confused account of U.S. history, his partisan snipes, and his dictatorial posturing, Donald Trump\u2019s parading and speechifying in Washington on July 4 attempted to glom onto one of the last consensus issues in a broken American culture: We love to support our troops. <em>\u201cWe celebrate our history, our people, and the heroes who proudly defend our flag\u2014the brave men and women of the United States military,\u201d<\/em> Trump told a crowd of mostly VIPs at the Lincoln Memorial.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/154471\/veterans-say-americas-wars-waste-no-ones-listening-them?fbclid=IwAR2LBC6FdkX2uzWvxJq9dxVkmZcB0RuzE8u-WE90JXQK6AkTPdy-kYNYKVE\" >TO READ THE ARTICLE Go to Original \u2013 newrepublic.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 Jul 2019 &#8211; There&#8217;s a widening gap between Washington&#8217;s bipartisan militarism and veterans&#8217; bipartisan war-skepticism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":137666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[229,234,291,91,70,126,118],"class_list":["post-137665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglo-america","tag-activism","tag-media","tag-military","tag-nato","tag-usa","tag-violence","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}