{"id":4459,"date":"2004-05-14T08:48:25","date_gmt":"2004-05-14T08:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4459"},"modified":"2011-11-03T16:34:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T20:34:11","slug":"abu-ghraib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4459","title":{"rendered":"Abu Ghraib"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We like to bomb from 30,000 feet,<br \/>\nfly back to Whiteman, MO after the run,<br \/>\nthen drive to the mall for something to eat,<br \/>\nOr wire funds to the guys who buy the guns<br \/>\nthat jab into the backs of old women<br \/>\nwho stagger away from burning homes.<br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t <em>do <\/em>firing squads, rape rooms, mass graves,<br \/>\nmidnight arrests; we think we don&#8217;t know <em>how<\/em>.<br \/>\nA GI is a big buzz-cut guy who saves<br \/>\nThe cowering victims of a foreign war,<br \/>\nor despotism, or incompetence.<br \/>\nWe can even oust regimes from afar.<br \/>\nDick and Lynne, in the VP&#8217;s residence,<br \/>\nonce more shoulder the burden to maintain<br \/>\nsecurity, order, and common sense.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re grandparents with degrees, guardians<br \/>\nof churches, agencies, and industries:<br \/>\nthey know just how to handle ruffians.<br \/>\nSaddam built his own Lubyanka, grim and dank.<br \/>\nIsaiah asked: &#8220;How hath the oppressor ceased?&#8221;<br \/>\nThe new commandant of Abu Ghraib&#8217;s a Yank.<br \/>\nAnd Babylon shall be as Sodom and<br \/>\nGomorrah; by her shall we sit and weep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We like to bomb from 30,000 feet, fly back to Whiteman, MO after the run, then drive to the mall for something to eat, Or wire funds to the guys who buy the guns that jab into the backs of old women who stagger away from burning homes. We don&#8217;t do firing squads, rape rooms, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine-arts","category-verse-and-worse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7422,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459\/revisions\/7422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}