{"id":114,"date":"2007-04-06T21:21:52","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T03:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=114"},"modified":"2007-04-06T21:21:52","modified_gmt":"2007-04-07T03:21:52","slug":"the-high-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"The High Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve lost it.  Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=447110&#038;in_page_id=1766&#038;ito=1490\">this<\/a> account of how the Brits were treated.  And remember that we can&#8217;t really condemn it because these techniques &#8212; and worse &#8212; have been practiced by the United States.<\/p>\n<p>And again, don&#8217;t come here with &#8220;they were in uniforms&#8221;.  This legal distinction is lost on the rest of the world &#8212; you remember them.  We&#8217;re trying to win their hearts and minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve lost it. Read this account of how the Brits were treated. And remember that we can&#8217;t really condemn it because these techniques &#8212; and worse &#8212; have been practiced by the United States. And again, don&#8217;t come here with &#8220;they were in uniforms&#8221;. This legal distinction is lost on the rest of the world &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=114\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The High Ground<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-1Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}