{"id":2913,"date":"2008-02-20T22:05:20","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T03:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2008-02-20T22:05:20","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T03:05:20","slug":"a-day-late-500-billion-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2913","title":{"rendered":"A day late, $500 billion short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">George Bush on why <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/02\/20\/bush-outside-forces-tend-to-divide-people-up\">he didn&#8217;t send troops into Darfur<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A clear lesson I learned in the museum was that outside forces that tend to divide people up inside their country are unbelievably counterproductive. In other words, people came from other countries \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I guess you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d call them colonialists \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and they pitted one group of people against another.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whew. I&#8217;m glad he learned that important life lesson before he got us involved in a pointless bloody conflict overseas. Obviously we can&#8217;t go sticking our noses, all nation-buildin&#8217; and whatnot, where they don&#8217;t belong. At least, not when it&#8217;s just human rights violations and genocide that&#8217;s the issue. That there would be colonializin&#8217;.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Bush on why he didn&#8217;t send troops into Darfur: &#8220;A clear lesson I learned in the museum was that outside forces that tend to divide people up inside their country are unbelievably counterproductive. In other words, people came from other countries \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I guess you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d call them colonialists \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and they pitted one group &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2913\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}