{"id":7537,"date":"2006-05-29T11:41:24","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T15:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7537"},"modified":"2006-05-29T11:41:24","modified_gmt":"2006-05-29T15:41:24","slug":"consider-the-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/consider-the-living\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Consider the Living’"},"content":{"rendered":"

As with most Memorial Days, there are a number of compelling, well-written pieces published today on the value of [tag]sacrifice[\/tag], the valor of American [tag]soldiers[\/tag], and the meaning behind honoring those who serve and don’t come back. Today, however, the New York Times’ [tag]Bob Herbert[\/tag]<\/a> does a fine job of suggesting that “we take a little time today to consider the living.”<\/p>\n

Look around and ask yourself if you believe that stability or democracy in [tag]Iraq[\/tag] — or whatever goal you choose to assert as the reason for this war — is worth the life of your son or your daughter, or your husband or your wife, or the co-worker who rides to the office with you in the morning, or your friendly neighbor next door.<\/p>\n

Before you gather up the hot dogs and head out to the barbecue this afternoon, look in a mirror and ask yourself honestly if Iraq is something you would be willing to [tag]die for[\/tag]. […]<\/p>\n

How many more healthy young people will we shovel into the fires of Iraq before finally deciding it’s time to stop? How many dead are enough? … As we remember the dead, we should consider the living, and stop sending people by the thousands to pointless, unnecessary deaths.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Late last week, [tag]Bush[\/tag] expressed some regret<\/a> for his cowboy talk from recent years, suggesting he was vaguely remorseful for not speaking in a “more sophisticated manner.” This [tag]Memorial Day[\/tag], here’s to hoping the [tag]president[\/tag]’s [tag]regret[\/tag]s and [tag]remorse[\/tag] go a little further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As with most Memorial Days, there are a number of compelling, well-written pieces published today on the value of [tag]sacrifice[\/tag], the valor of American [tag]soldiers[\/tag], and the meaning behind honoring those who serve and don’t come back. Today, however, the New York Times’ [tag]Bob Herbert[\/tag] does a fine job of suggesting that “we take a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}