{"id":148559,"date":"2023-06-06T05:01:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T13:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=148559"},"modified":"2023-06-06T05:14:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T13:14:19","slug":"do-free-societies-ever-start-wars-with-tyrannies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=148559","title":{"rendered":"Do Free Societies Ever Start Wars With Tyrannies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZjK9U-ZVvGo\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dennis said that if Israel is a greater obstacle to peace than Hamas, it would be the first time in history that a free society wanted war.<\/p>\n<p>In Athens vs Sparta, wasn&#8217;t Athens relatively free compared to Sparta and didn&#8217;t Athens launch the final war in that conflict? <\/p>\n<p>The United States invaded Iraq in 2003. Iraq was a tyranny. America was a free country. And America started that war while Iraq posed zero threat to America. <\/p>\n<p>The United States invaded Grenada in 1983 and Panama in 1989. Wasn&#8217;t this a free country invading tyrannies? <\/p>\n<p>The United States intervened countless times in Latin America. Aren&#8217;t these more examples disproving Prager&#8217;s claim? <\/p>\n<p>England and other European powers invaded countless poorer, less free, countries during the age of colonialism.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Prager&#8217;s quote from the video above: &#8220;In modern history, every war has been between a free state and a police state or two police states. I can&#8217;t think of a 20th Century example of any other. Where in the world other than Israel does anyone ever argue that the free state doesn&#8217;t want peace and the police state wants peace? This would be the first free state in history to prefer war to peace.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001. Wasn&#8217;t that a free state going to war with a police state?<\/p>\n<p>In the 1990s, the United States went to war with Serbia. Wasn&#8217;t that a free state going to war with a police state?<\/p>\n<p>In the 1960s, the United States went to war against North Vietnam. Wasn&#8217;t that a free state going to war with a police state?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis said that if Israel is a greater obstacle to peace than Hamas, it would be the first time in history that a free society wanted war. In Athens vs Sparta, wasn&#8217;t Athens relatively free compared to Sparta and didn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=148559\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148559"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148566,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148559\/revisions\/148566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}