{"id":22,"date":"2003-01-15T08:24:34","date_gmt":"2003-01-15T08:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3500years.com\/zsallia\/?p=22"},"modified":"2003-01-15T08:24:34","modified_gmt":"2003-01-15T08:24:34","slug":"war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/2003\/01\/15\/war\/","title":{"rendered":"War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>What is the tipping point for war<\/b>?  When does a build up towards hostilities morph in to an &#8220;inevitable&#8221; conflict? I noted earlier that no war is unavoidable until it begins; however, one has to be careful how one defines war.  <a href=\"http:\/\/denbeste.nu\/cd_log_entries\/2002\/12\/Whenshouldyoufightawar.shtml\">Another writer recently wrote of the broader definition of war <\/a>that includes such things as economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure backed by rewards and punishments, etc.  I am inclined to agree with his lengthy analysis, and by that measure war against Iraq began more than ten years ago and has been on-going since that time.  What the world awaits now is an answer to the following question:  will this war finally end?  Oddly enough, those opposed to conventional action against Iraq are in favor of prolonging the conflict, while those in favor of invasion support bringing this war to a close.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the tipping point for war? When does a build up towards hostilities morph in to an &#8220;inevitable&#8221; conflict? I noted earlier that no war is unavoidable until it begins; however, one has to be careful how one defines war. Another writer recently wrote of the broader definition of war that includes such things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-the-present"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}