{"id":1272,"date":"2005-09-28T09:59:34","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T16:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/09\/why_are_we_not_surprised\/"},"modified":"2005-09-28T09:59:34","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T16:59:34","slug":"why_are_we_not_surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/09\/why_are_we_not_surprised.html","title":{"rendered":"WHY ARE WE NOT SURPRISED?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something else for Christopher Hitchens to chew on,  the <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2126636\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>weasel-word<\/strong><\/font><\/a> &#8220;seemed&#8221; notwithstanding:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Army captain who reported new allegations of detainee abuse in Iraq said Tuesday that Army investigators seemed more concerned about tracking down young soldiers who reported misconduct than in following up the accusations and investigating whether higher-ranking officers knew of the abuses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We can&#8217;t be sure, but we don&#8217;t think the officer &#8212; 29-year-old Capt. Ian Fishback &#8212; is what Hitchens even in his wildest attack on the so-called liberal press would term a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2005\/09\/true_believers_1.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>phoney peacenik<\/strong><\/font><\/a>. Fishback is a West Point graduate from Michigan and son of a Vietnam War veteran, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/09\/28\/international\/middleeast\/28abuse.html?pagewanted=all\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Eric Schmitt&#8217;s report<\/strong><\/font><\/a>.<br \/>\n<i>&#8212; Tireless Staff of Thousands<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something else for Christopher Hitchens to chew on, the phoney peacenik. Fishback is a West Point graduate from Michigan and son of a Vietnam War veteran, according to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-kw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}