{"id":2361,"date":"2006-05-22T22:52:49","date_gmt":"2006-05-22T22:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2361"},"modified":"2006-05-22T22:52:49","modified_gmt":"2006-05-22T22:52:49","slug":"on_the_pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2361","title":{"rendered":"On the Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgnradio.com\/weblog\/archives\/miltsfile\/2006\/05\/22\/index.html#002314\">Milt Rosenberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Dwight Eisenhower once said, &ldquo;The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.&rdquo; Some argue that the Pentagon (the epicenter of America&rsquo;s defense) has evolved from a protective to a pernicious influence on the country&rsquo;s international relations. After tonight&rsquo;s 6:05 p.m. Cubs game, we will examine the role of the Pentagon in American history and in current American foreign policy&mdash;both positive and negative&mdash;with two experts: JOHN ALLEN WILLIAMS, professor of political science at Loyola University Chicago and an expert on the American military and national security, and National Book Award-winning author JAMES CARROLL, who tackles this very subject in his new book House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milt Rosenberg: Dwight Eisenhower once said, &ldquo;The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.&rdquo; Some argue that the Pentagon (the epicenter of America&rsquo;s defense) has evolved from a protective to a pernicious influence on the country&rsquo;s international relations. After tonight&rsquo;s 6:05 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}