{"id":659,"date":"2011-05-14T11:07:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T15:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=659"},"modified":"2011-05-14T22:55:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T02:55:21","slug":"the-view-from-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"The view from Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.ug\/the-last-word\/the-last-word\/4169-the-futility-and-dangers-of-a-nato-installed-regime-in-libya\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.ug\/the-last-word\/the-last-word\/4169-the-futility-and-dangers-of-a-nato-installed-regime-in-libya<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A memory of history can be a wonderful thing, or a terrible burden.<\/p>\n<p>The above is from the country that had to get rid of Idi Amin. The author makes the same basic point from one of my posts a month ago &#8211; freedom has to be won, it can&#8217;t be given by an outsider. If George Washington hadn&#8217;t won the Revolution, but instead let the French provide the weapons, troops and do much of the fighting, in a few years, the &#8220;opportunists&#8221; like Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay will squeeze out the people who actually risked their lives to fight the Revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.independent.co.ug\/the-last-word\/the-last-word\/4169-the-futility-and-dangers-of-a-nato-installed-regime-in-libya A memory of history can be a wonderful thing, or a terrible burden. The above is from the country that had to get rid of Idi Amin. The author makes the same basic point from one of my posts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=659\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}