{"id":1254948,"date":"2023-10-09T04:59:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T04:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=297441"},"modified":"2023-10-09T04:59:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T04:59:29","slug":"violence-begets-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/10\/09\/violence-begets-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Violence Begets Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pyrrhic Victory:\u00a0 \u201cA victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that is tantamount to defeat. The phrase originates from a quote from Pyrrhus of Epirus, whose triumph against the Romans in the Battle of Asculum destroyed much of his forces.\u201d First, let me state without equivocation that I abhor violence in all  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/10\/09\/violence-begets-violence\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/10\/09\/violence-begets-violence\/\">\u00a0Violence Begets Violence<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/10\/09\/violence-begets-violence\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pyrrhic Victory:\u00a0 \u201cA victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that is tantamount to defeat. The phrase originates from a quote from Pyrrhus of Epirus, whose triumph against the Romans in the Battle of Asculum destroyed much of his fo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258697,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254948\/revisions\/1258697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}