{"id":45594,"date":"2011-11-29T14:59:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T14:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/29\/noam-chomsky-quotes-i-have-never-heard-of-a\/"},"modified":"2011-11-29T14:59:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T14:59:36","slug":"noam-chomsky-quotes-i-have-never-heard-of-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/29\/noam-chomsky-quotes-i-have-never-heard-of-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Noam Chomsky Quotes:  I have never heard of a state that admits it\u2019s carrying out an&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/noam-chomsky.tumblr.com\/post\/13500503975\/i-have-never-heard-of-a-state-that-admits-its'>Noam Chomsky Quotes:  I have never heard of a state that admits it\u2019s carrying out an&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/noam-chomsky.tumblr.com\/post\/13500503975\/i-have-never-heard-of-a-state-that-admits-its\" target=\"_blank\">noam-chomsky<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> <em><em><em><em>I have never heard of a state that admits it\u2019s carrying out an aggressive act, they\u2019re always engaged in \u201cdefense,\u201d no matter what they\u2019re doing\u2014maybe \u201cpreemptive defense,\u201d or something. <\/em>\ufeff <\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026For example, one of the major scholarly books on the Cold War is called <\/em><u>Strategies of Containment<\/u><em>, by John Lewis Gaddis\u2014it\u2019s the foremost scholarly study by the top diplomatic historian, so it\u2019s worth taking a look at. Well, in discussing this great theme, \u201cstrategies of containment,\u201d Gaddis begins by by talking about the terminology. He says at the beginning: it\u2019s true that the term \u201dcontainment\u201d begs some questions, yes it presupposes some things, but nevertheless, despite the question on whether it\u2019s factually accurate, it still is proper to adopt it as the framework for discussion. And the reason why it\u2019s proper is because it was the <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noam Chomsky Quotes: I have never heard of a state that admits it\u2019s carrying out an&#8230; noam-chomsky: I have never heard of a state that admits it\u2019s carrying out an aggressive act, they\u2019re always engaged in \u201cdefense,\u201d no matter what they\u2019re doing\u2014maybe \u201cpreemptive defense,\u201d or something. \ufeff \u2026For example, one of the major scholarly books &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/29\/noam-chomsky-quotes-i-have-never-heard-of-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Noam Chomsky Quotes:  I have never heard of a state that admits it\u2019s carrying out an&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}