{"id":700,"date":"2006-07-18T03:39:47","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T02:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=700"},"modified":"2006-07-18T03:43:34","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T02:43:34","slug":"same-shit-different-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/07\/18\/same-shit-different-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Same shit, different day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Oriental doesn&#8217;t put the same high price on life as does the Westerner. Life is cheap in the Orient.&#8221; General William Westmoreland, commander of US military operations during the Vietnam War, speaking in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0071604\/\"><em>Hearts and Minds<\/em><\/a> (1974).<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20060717\/pl_afp\/mideastconflictlebanon_060717204728\">Yahoo News<\/a>, Mon Jul 17, 2006, 4:47 PM ET<br \/>\nUNITED NATIONS (AFP) &#8211; US Ambassador John Bolton said there was no moral equivalence between the civilian casualties from the Israeli raids in Lebanon and those killed in Israel from &#8220;malicious terrorist acts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to comment on the deaths in an Israeli air strike of eight Canadian citizens in southern Lebanon Sunday, he said: &#8220;it is a matter of great concern to us&#8230;that these civilian deaths are occurring. It&#8217;s a tragedy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it would be a mistake to ascribe moral equivalence to civilians who die as the direct result of malicious terrorist acts,&#8221; he added, while defending as &#8220;self-defense&#8221; Israel&#8217;s military action, which has had &#8220;the tragic and unfortunate consequence of civilian deaths&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Oriental doesn&#8217;t put the same high price on life as does the Westerner. Life is cheap in the Orient.&#8221; General William Westmoreland, commander of US military operations during the Vietnam War, speaking in Hearts and Minds (1974). Yahoo News, Mon Jul 17, 2006, 4:47 PM ET UNITED NATIONS (AFP) &#8211; US Ambassador John Bolton &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/07\/18\/same-shit-different-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Same shit, different day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-bi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}