{"id":115,"date":"2014-06-22T20:38:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T19:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2014-06-27T21:00:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T20:00:06","slug":"no-boots-on-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/06\/no-boots-on-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"No boots on the ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amongst the comments under the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/jeffdanziger\/2014\/06\/22#.U61fqFGVtBw\" target=\"_blank\"> Jeff Danziger cartoon of 22nd June 2014<\/a>\u00a0was:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #474747;\">Better to put drones in harms way than our young men and women.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The use of drones is exactly the sort of behaviour that promotes terrorism. They create impotent fear in the citizens of the target country which results in the development of more creative ways of hitting back. \u00a0When that creativity is coupled with opportunity and resources, new terrorist groups form.<\/p>\n<p>Putting boots on the ground puts faces to the attackers and allows the victims to see it is real people attacking them, not just the whim of some anonymous uncaring president of an elitist, violent, uncaring country. Those real people can be talked to, traded with, bartered with and relationships formed. That prevents terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>The more America attacks people in such remote, cowardly ways as using missiles and drones, the more they will be confident you are frightened of them \u2013 which, of course, America is.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re not just \u2018playing into the hands of terrorists\u2019 by using drones, you are creating the terrorist response. Unless, of course, you intend to kill everyone in the target countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amongst the comments under the Jeff Danziger cartoon of 22nd June 2014\u00a0was: Better to put drones in harms way than our young men and women. The use of drones is exactly the sort of behaviour that promotes terrorism. They create &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/06\/no-boots-on-the-ground\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,15],"tags":[135,115],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airstrikes-kill-civilians","category-living-with-fear","tag-airstrikes-kill-civilians","tag-living-with-fear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}