{"id":1872,"date":"2007-05-23T12:04:59","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T18:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2017-05-21T01:02:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T07:02:48","slug":"the-sack-of-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/the-sack-of-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sack of Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/poar01_murphy0706.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/poar01_murphy0706.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Vanity Fair June 2007<\/p>\n<p>Excerpted from Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America, by Cullen Murphy, to be published this month by Houghton Mifflin.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dc\">P<\/span>resident and emperor, America and Rome: the matchup is by now so familiar, so natural, that you just can&#8217;t help yourself &#8211; it comes to mind unbidden, in the reflexive way that the behavior of chimps reminds you of the behavior of people. Everyone gets it whenever a comparison of Rome and America is drawn&#8221;\u201dfor instance, the offhand allusion to welfare and televised sports as &#8220;bread and circuses,&#8221; or to illegal immigrants as &#8220;barbarian hordes.&#8221; If reference is made to an &#8220;imperial presidency,&#8221; or to the deployment abroad of &#8220;American legions,&#8221; no one raises an eyebrow and wonders what you could possibly be talking about. Invoke the phrase &#8220;decline and fall&#8221; and thoughts turn simultaneously to the Roman past and the American present.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/politics\/features\/2007\/06\/murphy200706?printable=true&#038;currentPage=all\">(Original Article)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanity Fair June 2007 Excerpted from Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America, by Cullen Murphy, to be published this month by Houghton Mifflin. President and emperor, America and Rome: the matchup is by now so familiar, so natural, that you just can&#8217;t help yourself &#8211; it comes to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bush_era","category-related-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Sack of Washington &#8226; Impeach for Peace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Citizen&#039;s impeach strategy. 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