{"id":4569,"date":"2004-10-14T07:52:02","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T07:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4569"},"modified":"2004-10-14T07:52:02","modified_gmt":"2004-10-14T07:52:02","slug":"the-global-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4569","title":{"rendered":"the &#8220;global test&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Jefferson said it best: &#8220;When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to [do something drastic that affects the status of other nations,] a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them. &#8230; To prove it, let facts be submitted to a candid world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The founders of the United States asked for no one&#8217;s permission to declare our independence (although they needed help from France). Nevertheless, they considered themselves obliged to submit &#8220;facts&#8221; in support of their decision. If their allegations had been false, then they would have failed the &#8220;global test,&#8221; as the United States did in 2003 when we presented a false rationale for our invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Jefferson said it best: &#8220;When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to [do something drastic that affects the status of other nations,] a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them. &#8230; To prove it, let facts be submitted [&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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq-and-democratic-theory"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569","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=4569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}