{"id":448,"date":"2012-01-18T21:11:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T01:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=448"},"modified":"2012-01-18T21:11:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T01:11:05","slug":"a-shot-of-honesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=448","title":{"rendered":"A shot of honesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My initial support for the war [in Iraq] was symptomatic of unfortunate tendencies within the foreign policy community, namely the disposition and incentives to support wars to retain political and professional credibility. We \u2018experts\u2019 have a lot to fix about ourselves, even as we \u2018perfect\u2019 the media. We must redouble our commitment to independent thought, and embrace, rather than cast aside, opinions and facts that blow the common\u2014often wrong\u2014wisdom apart. Our democracy requires nothing less.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8211; Les Gelb<br \/>\nPresident Emeritus<br \/>\nCouncil on Foreign Relations<br \/>\nin an article entitled <em>Mission Unaccomplished<\/em><br \/>\nSummer 2009<\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My initial support for the war [in Iraq] was symptomatic of unfortunate tendencies within the foreign policy community, namely the disposition and incentives to support wars to retain political and professional credibility. We \u2018experts\u2019 have a lot to fix about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=448\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}