{"id":185832,"date":"2014-08-06T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/06\/there-is-no-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-we-are-just-digging-a-deeper-hole\/"},"modified":"2014-08-06T21:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T02:48:00","slug":"there-is-no-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-we-are-just-digging-a-deeper-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/06\/there-is-no-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-we-are-just-digging-a-deeper-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"There is No Light at the End of the Tunnel.  We are Just Digging a Deeper Hole."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/XmLh7.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/XmLh7.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>The usual suspects are arguing that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-08-05\/u-s-german-officials-among-victims-of-afghan-shooting-incident.html\">killing of General Green in Afghanistan means that we should double down on the forever war going on there<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">An insider attack against international and Afghan forces in Kabul that killed a U.S. general has renewed questions about the Obama administration\u2019s exit strategy from Afghanistan and the country\u2019s security.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Republican lawmakers critical of Obama\u2019s withdrawal plan pointed to the insider attack as a reason to change course. In May, Obama announced plans to reduce U.S. troop strength to 9,800 by the end of this year and to half that number in late 2015. Only a small security assistance force at the U.S. embassy would remain by the end of 2016, as Obama prepares to leave office. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m beginning to think that we need a constitutional amendment requiring that all children of Congressmen between the ages of 18 and 40 be <b>required<\/b> to serve as active duty service members.<\/p>\n<p>I expect to hear from John McCain arguing for moar woar on the Sunday shows in 4 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The usual suspects are arguing that killing of General Green in Afghanistan means that we should double down on the forever war going on there: An insider attack against international and Afghan forces in Kabul that killed a U.S. general has renewed questions about the Obama administration\u2019s exit strategy from Afghanistan and the country\u2019s security. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,981,998,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-civil-war","category-congress","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185832"}],"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=185832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}