{"id":151929,"date":"2020-05-25T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=151929"},"modified":"2020-05-05T09:21:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T08:21:44","slug":"america-exists-today-to-make-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/05\/america-exists-today-to-make-war\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAmerica Exists Today to Make War\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0On Endless War &amp; American Empire<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>13 Jan 2020 &#8211;<\/em><\/strong> Retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as Chief of Staff of Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2002 to 2005, says the escalation of tensions between the U.S. and Iran today is a continuation of two decades of U.S. policy disasters in the Middle East, starting with the 2003 run-up to war with Iraq under the Bush administration.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cAmerica exists today to make war. How else do we interpret 19 straight years of war and no end in sight? It\u2019s part of who we are. It\u2019s part of what the American Empire is,\u201d <\/em>says Wilkerson.<em> \u201cWe are going to cheat and steal to do whatever it is we have to do to continue this war complex. That\u2019s the truth of it. And that\u2019s the agony of it.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JYHRlK3VYbI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAmerica exists today to make war. How else do we interpret 19 straight years of war and no end in sight? It\u2019s part of who we are. It\u2019s part of what the American Empire is,\u201d says Wilkerson. \u201cWe are going to cheat and steal to do whatever it is we have to do to continue this war complex. That\u2019s the truth of it. And that\u2019s the agony of it.\u201d &#8212; Retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff of Secretary of State Colin Powell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[1253,354,555,1105,769,95,118],"class_list":["post-151929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-demilitarization","tag-economics","tag-elites","tag-military-industrial-complex","tag-military-supremacy","tag-us-military","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151929","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=151929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}