a:18:{s:8:"theTitle";s:54:"Empire in Decline? The Descent from Solomon to Robocop";s:12:"thePermalink";s:86:"https://www.islamicity.org/1712/empire-in-decline-the-descent-from-solomon-to-robocop/";s:13:"theAuthorName";s:18:"George Lewandowski";s:12:"theThumbnail";s:0:"";s:6:"isWhat";s:7:"article";s:7:"theIcon";s:0:"";s:11:"theCategory";s:44:"cannot-retrieve-category-see-cell-part-1.php";s:6:"theTag";s:37:"saddam hussein|/topics/saddam-hussein";s:7:"theDate";s:11:"Feb 26 2002";s:11:"theDate_ORG";s:17:"February 26, 2002";s:9:"theAuthor";s:41:"George Lewandowski|/by/george-lewandowski";s:5:"theID";i:1712;s:14:"theReadingTime";s:7:"22 min.";s:10:"theExcerpt";s:622:"Ninety percent of America's citizens cannot see any logical disconnect between labeling foreign trained killers as "terrorists" and calling American trained and financed death squads "a stabilizing force." Even when the Taliban, Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro, and dozens of other thugs whom the U.S. has supported over the years, got re-labeled and recycled as "terrorists," ninety percent of us still lacked the guts to question the obvious fickleness of this unprincipled labeling process. This script formula has proven so successful that the writers are busy converting even more of our "allies" into "terrorists." ";s:12:"theTitle_ORG";s:54:"Empire in Decline? The Descent from Solomon to Robocop";s:25:"processRelatedFacetsTitle";s:0:"";s:15:"whereItCameFrom";s:85:"_blp_taxonomy_archives.php & zone12 & tax-query & mostrecent on post_tag=fidel-castro";s:8:"theFacet";s:0:"";}