{"id":56335,"date":"2017-08-10T03:14:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T03:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=56335"},"modified":"2017-08-10T03:14:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T03:14:38","slug":"truman-trump-and-that-reminds-me-maude-rumsfeld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=56335","title":{"rendered":"Truman Trump, and that reminds me, Maude Rumsfeld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; humming along as the world sings ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not as though I&#8217;m the one who noticed the <strong>Trump Truman<\/strong> correspondence &#8212; it&#8217;s laid out, with some other worthwhile quotes, in the <strong>New Yorker<\/strong> piece, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/john-cassidy\/donald-trumps-nuclear-war-threat\">Donald Trump&#8217;s Nuclear War Threat<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SPEC-DQ-TRuman-Trump.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"644\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SPEC-DQ-TRuman-Trump.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SPEC-DQ-TRuman-Trump-280x300.png 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it does have something of an apocalyptic ring to it, as does Truman&#8217;s remark, which he slipped in like a knife between <strong>Hiroshima and Nagasaki<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>All of which reminds me of two invasions of Iraq, a century apart:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SPEC-DQ-Maude-Rumsfeld.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"644\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SPEC-DQ-Maude-Rumsfeld.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SPEC-DQ-Maude-Rumsfeld-280x300.png 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nothing apocalyptic there &#8212; unless you think of <strong>Baghdad <\/strong>in the same breath as <strong>Babylon<\/strong> &#8212; which <strong>Saddam <\/strong>likely did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; humming along as the world sings ] . It&#8217;s not as though I&#8217;m the one who noticed the Trump Truman correspondence &#8212; it&#8217;s laid out, with some other worthwhile quotes, in the New Yorker piece, Donald Trump&#8217;s Nuclear War Threat: And it does have something of an apocalyptic ring to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[622,526,1314,627,45,695,90,427,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalyptic","category-charles-cameron","category-donald-trump","category-doublequotes","category-iraq","category-korea","category-nuclear","category-truman","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56340,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56335\/revisions\/56340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}