{"id":85,"date":"2003-11-07T12:27:22","date_gmt":"2003-11-07T17:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=85"},"modified":"2003-11-07T12:27:22","modified_gmt":"2003-11-07T17:27:22","slug":"call-them-werewolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Call them Werewolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blogosphere has shown some ability to change the terms and<br \/>\nterminology of the terror-war debate in the U.S.  It&#8217;s time for a bit<br \/>\nof meme-hacking.  Let&#8217;s see if we can displace terms like &#8220;insurgent&#8221;<br \/>\nor &#8220;Saddam loyalist&#8221; with one that conveys the true depth of evil we<br \/>\nare facing.  I have a candidate to propose.<\/p>\n<p>A little more than sixty years ago, the U.S. and its allies went to<br \/>\nwar another psychopathic, mass-murdering dictator &mdash; Adolf<br \/>\nHitler.  In 1944, as the Third Reich was collapsing, the SS organized<br \/>\na Nazi resistance to commit assassinations, sabotage and guerrilla<br \/>\nwarfare behind Allied lines.  The parallels in organization and<br \/>\ntactics with Baathist-holdout activity in Iraq are <a href='http:\/\/www.findarticles.com\/cf_dls\/m1373\/10_50\/66157021\/p1\/article.jhtml'>very<br \/>\nclose<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is a matter of record from Saddam Hussein&#8217;s autobiography that<br \/>\nhe admired Hitler&#8217;s ruthless efficiency and sought to emulate it.  We<br \/>\nshould revive for these remnant Baathist thugs the term, redolent of<br \/>\nwillful evil and darkness, that the Nazi resistance fighters used for<br \/>\nthemselves.<\/p>\n<p>Call them <b>werewolves<\/b>.  It&#8217;s what they deserve.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/enetation.co.uk\/comments.php?user=esr&amp;commentid=106817605312352938\">Blogspot comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blogosphere has shown some ability to change the terms and terminology of the terror-war debate in the U.S. It&#8217;s time for a bit of meme-hacking. Let&#8217;s see if we can displace terms like &#8220;insurgent&#8221; or &#8220;Saddam loyalist&#8221; with one that conveys the true depth of evil we are facing. I have a candidate to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=85\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Call them Werewolves<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}