{"id":177088,"date":"2020-01-01T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/01\/worst-1979-cover-band-ever\/"},"modified":"2020-01-01T09:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T14:16:00","slug":"worst-1979-cover-band-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/01\/worst-1979-cover-band-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst 1979 Cover Band Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Once again short-sighted and stupid foreign policy is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/iraqi-protesters-storm-us-embassy-compound-in-baghdad\/a-51843380\">putting a US embassy in the Middle East at risk<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Iraqi protesters and militia fighters angry over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/us-hits-back-at-iran-linked-militia-in-iraq-after-rocket-attack\/a-51829278\">recent deadly US airstrikes on an Iran-backed Shiite militia group<\/a> attacked the heavily fortified US embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of men waving Iraqi and militia flags torched a security post and hurled stones at security forces, as embassy guards fired stun grenades and tear gas to disperse crowds that breached the outer wall of America&#8217;s largest embassy. <\/p>\n<p>There were no reports of casualties, but the breach was one of the worst attacks on a US embassy in recent memory. The Pentagon said it had deployed extra troops to protect the mission. Meanwhile, the State Department said there were no plans to evacuate the compound.  <\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The militiamen were demonstrating against US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria on Sunday targeting Kataeb Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Iraqi militia. At least 25 militiamen were killed. <\/p>\n<p>Iraqi security forces allowed thousands of protesters to march to the heavily-fortified Green Zone after a funeral held for those killed, letting them pass through a security checkpoint leading to the area. <\/p>\n<p>Many in the crowd shouted &#8220;Down, Down USA!&#8221; and &#8220;Death to America&#8221; and &#8220;Death to Israel&#8221; outside the embassy compound as they threw objects over its walls.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am old enough to remember the the takeover of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>If history does not repeat itself, it certainly rhymes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again short-sighted and stupid foreign policy is putting a US embassy in the Middle East at risk: Iraqi protesters and militia fighters angry over recent deadly US airstrikes on an Iran-backed Shiite militia group attacked the heavily fortified US embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday. Hundreds of men waving Iraqi and militia flags torched a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[588,394,399],"class_list":["post-177088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fail","tag-foreign-relations","tag-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}