{"id":3411,"date":"2005-06-30T10:51:57","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T18:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/06\/30\/one-of-americas-enemies\/"},"modified":"2005-06-30T10:51:57","modified_gmt":"2005-06-30T18:51:57","slug":"one-of-americas-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/30\/one-of-americas-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"One of America’s enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tNixon called Indira Gandhi an “old witch”<\/a> but she wasn’t as hostile to the US as Arundhati Roy, the narcissistic Indian novelist-turned-revolutionary who wants our enemies to hit us and hit us hard<\/a> while she stands back and watches (login nobugs, pw bugmenot): <\/p>\n

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Personally I\u2019m not prepared to pick up arms now. But maybe I can afford not to, at whatever place I am in now. I think violence really marginalizes and brutalizes women. It depoliticizes things. It\u2019s undemocratic in so many ways. But at the same time, when you look at the massive amount of violence that America is perpetrating in Iraq, I don\u2019t know that I\u2019m in a position to tell Iraqis that you must fight a pristine, feminist, democratic, secular, non-violent war. I can\u2019t say. I just feel that that resistance in Iraq is our battle too and we have to support it. And we can\u2019t be looking for pristine struggles in which to invest our purity. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She’s basically aligned with Al Qaeda; it’s good to know that, in a “keep your enemies closer” sense.<\/p>\n

H\/t Michael Totten<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nixon called Indira Gandhi an “old witch” but she wasn’t as hostile to the US as Arundhati Roy, the narcissistic Indian novelist-turned-revolutionary who wants our enemies to hit us and hit us hard while she stands back and watches (login nobugs, pw bugmenot): Personally I\u2019m not prepared to pick up arms now. But maybe I … Continue reading “One of America’s enemies”<\/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-3411","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-T1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411","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=3411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}