{"id":845,"date":"2018-03-29T15:52:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T13:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=845"},"modified":"2018-03-29T16:11:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T14:11:19","slug":"iraq-is-a-reminder-us-crimes-against-humanity-predate-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=845","title":{"rendered":"Iraq is a reminder: US crimes against humanity predate Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/mar\/29\/iraq-war-15-years-later-george-bush-war-crimes\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People talk a lot about \u201ctotalitarianism\u201d in the Trump era. I\u2019ve never really loved the category: it seems to paper over some pretty deep differences between the entities one might call totalitarian. But if there was a \u201ctotalitarian\u201d moment in my lifetime, it is unquestionably the period between 9\/11 and the\u00a0Iraq\u00a0war&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>This was not the failure of the rule-of-law: this is the rule-of-law in a system in which any attempt to transform power or even challenge it has been silenced.<\/p>\n<p>This was not because \u201cnorms\u201d or the constitution were violated; this was the absolute functioning of norms and the constitution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: People talk a lot about \u201ctotalitarianism\u201d in the Trump era. I\u2019ve never really loved the category: it seems to paper over some pretty deep differences between the entities one might call totalitarian. But if there was a \u201ctotalitarian\u201d moment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=845\">Weiterlesen <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":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}