{"id":71110,"date":"2026-04-07T15:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/protecting-civilians-is-a-sign-of-strength-and-an-american-ideal-ted-widmer\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:57:19","slug":"protecting-civilians-is-a-sign-of-strength-and-an-american-ideal-ted-widmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/protecting-civilians-is-a-sign-of-strength-and-an-american-ideal-ted-widmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting civilians is a sign of strength \u2013 and an American ideal | Ted Widmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US was founded on a pledge to limit the damages of war, even if it has often failed to uphold its commitment<\/p>\n<p>Far from expressing remorse for his threat to bomb civilian infrastructure, Donald Trump is doubling down as we approach his deadline for Iranian submission: 8pm ET on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not enough for the US to achieve a military victory \u2013 one that continues to elude him, with his stated goals for the war still unmet. Instead, \u201ca whole civilization will die, never to be brought back again,\u201d as he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2026\/04\/07\/world\/iran-war-trump-news\">posted on social media<\/a>. He then added that we are approaching \u201cone of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/apr\/07\/us-trump-iran-war-civilians\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US was founded on a pledge to limit the damages of war, even if it has often failed to uphold its commitment Far from expressing remorse for his threat to bomb civilian infrastructure, Donald Trump is doubling down as we approach his deadline for Iranian submission: 8pm ET on Tuesday. It\u2019s not enough for &#8230; <a title=\"Protecting civilians is a sign of strength \u2013 and an American ideal | Ted Widmer\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/protecting-civilians-is-a-sign-of-strength-and-an-american-ideal-ted-widmer\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Protecting civilians is a sign of strength \u2013 and an American ideal | Ted Widmer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}