{"id":184956,"date":"2011-11-27T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/11\/27\/when-our-ally-is-not-our-ally\/"},"modified":"2011-11-27T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T23:44:00","slug":"when-our-ally-is-not-our-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/11\/27\/when-our-ally-is-not-our-ally\/","title":{"rendered":"When Our Ally is Not Our Ally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/nov\/27\/pakistan-nato-afghanistan-disarray\">US forces have been ejected from the Shamsi air base and the border crossings have been closed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note that this airbase is a primary drone base for the US, so this is a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>I think that something that no one is acknowledging is the fact that we are at war with some or all of the Pakistani state security apparatus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, US forces have been ejected from the Shamsi air base and the border crossings have been closed. Note that this airbase is a primary drone base for the US, so this is a big deal. I think that something that no one is acknowledging is the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,964,1151,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-foreign-relations","category-south-asia","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184956"}],"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=184956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}