{"id":1561,"date":"2007-11-25T19:19:35","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T17:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/25\/a-war-about-war\/"},"modified":"2007-11-25T19:22:07","modified_gmt":"2007-11-25T17:22:07","slug":"a-war-about-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/25\/a-war-about-war\/","title":{"rendered":"a war about war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although I sometimes cringe at his take on liberal things as I see them, I appreciate Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s thought process and writing on most things political &#8211; he&#8217;s a classic &#8216;conservative&#8217; (not a neo-con) and has the insight to see that his species is endangered&#8230;. He has a great article on Obama in The Atlantic right now. Really, really smart ideas about what a candidacy would mean&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At its best, the Obama candidacy is about ending a war\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnot so much the war in Iraq, which now has a momentum that will propel the occupation into the next decade\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut the war within America that has prevailed since Vietnam and that shows dangerous signs of intensifying, a nonviolent civil war that has crippled America at the very time the world needs it most. It is a war about war\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand about culture and about religion and about race. And in that war, Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand Obama alone\u00e2\u20ac\u201doffers the possibility of a truce.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice, long piece, too. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200712\/obama\" title=\"Goodbye to All That\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I sometimes cringe at his take on liberal things as I see them, I appreciate Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s thought process and writing on most things political &#8211; he&#8217;s a classic &#8216;conservative&#8217; (not a neo-con) and has the insight to see that his species is endangered&#8230;. He has a great article on Obama in The Atlantic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","category-re-blog-tidbits"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-pb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1604,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/18\/a-more-perfect-union\/","url_meta":{"origin":1561,"position":0},"title":"A more perfect union (updated)","author":"nathaniel","date":"18 March 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"My president: [youtube:http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pWe7wTVbLUU] And, I must also quote Andrew Sullivan's first response in full: Alas, I cannot give a more considered response right now as I have to get on the road. 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