{"id":1773,"date":"2003-11-07T09:38:23","date_gmt":"2003-11-07T16:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/11\/winning-the-peace\/"},"modified":"2003-11-07T09:38:23","modified_gmt":"2003-11-07T16:38:23","slug":"winning-the-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/07\/winning-the-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning the Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tJosh Chafetz has posted <a title=\"OxBlog\" href=\"http:\/\/oxblog.blogspot.com\/2003_11_02_oxblog_archive.html#106821413951533888\">his speech to the Oxford Union<\/a> on the question of winning or losing the peace:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> Three of the most widely read American magazines have recently run stories on how the occupation is going, and the verdict is unanimous. &#8220;Americans are Losing the Victory&#8221; screams one. &#8220;How We Botched the Occupation&#8221; is on the cover of another. &#8220;Blueprint for a Mess&#8221; is the verdict of the third.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I&#8217;ve taken some liberties with two of those headlines, so let me start over. &#8220;Blueprint for a Mess&#8221; is indeed the cover article in this week&#8217;s New York Times Magazine. But &#8220;Americans Are Losing the Victory&#8221; is from the January 7, 1945 issue of Life magazine, and the full headline is &#8220;Americans are Losing the Victory in Europe.&#8221; The Saturday Evening Post on January 26, 1946 ran &#8220;How We Botched the German Occupation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chafetz and two undergrads trounced two leftist MPs and an undergrad.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Chafetz has posted his speech to the Oxford Union on the question of winning or losing the peace: Three of the most widely read American magazines have recently run stories on how the occupation is going, and the verdict is unanimous. &#8220;Americans are Losing the Victory&#8221; screams one. &#8220;How We Botched the Occupation&#8221; is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/07\/winning-the-peace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Winning the Peace&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-sB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}