{"id":187944,"date":"2011-01-20T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/20\/winning-hearts-and-minds\/"},"modified":"2011-01-20T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T00:55:00","slug":"winning-hearts-and-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/20\/winning-hearts-and-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning Hearts and Minds\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">This is your village<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/img535.imageshack.us\/img535\/3224\/tarokkolache8643953.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/img535.imageshack.us\/img535\/3224\/tarokkolache8643953.png\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a><br \/>This is your village after the US military &#8220;saves it&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Any questions?<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Because of activities by the Taliban in Tarok Kolache in Afghanistan, they basically occupied it, the US <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2011\/01\/25-tons-of-bombs-wipes-afghan-town-off-the-map\/\">obliterated it with over 25 tons of munitions<\/a>, but that&#8217;s OK, because it&#8217;s not like the Afghans are <b>people<\/b> deserving of consideration:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">As <\/span>[Petraeus Hagiographer and all-around toady Paula] <span style=\"color: blue;\">Broadwell tells it, the villagers understood that the United States needed to destroy their homes \u2014 except when they don\u2019t. One villager \u201cin a fit of theatrics had accused Flynn of ruining his life after the demolition.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\">An adviser to Hamid Karzai said that the 1-320th \u201ccaused unreasonable damage to homes and orchards and displaced a number of people.\u201d Flynn has held \u201creconstruction shuras\u201d with the villagers and begun compensating villagers for their property losses, but so far the reconstruction has barely begun, three months after the destruction.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\">\u201c<b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Sure they are pissed about the loss of their mud huts<\/span><\/b>,\u201d Broadwell wrote on Facebook, \u201cbut that is why the BUILD story is important here.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, they live in mud huts, why should we care what the f%$# they think?<\/p>\n<p>More seriously, this is the endgame of a failed colonial adventure, and I think that anyone with half a brain, including David &#8220;I want that 5<sup>th<\/sup> Star, Bitches&#8221; Petraeus, and Barack Obama, but the general is too interested in his career, and the President is too afraid of the Republicans calling him names, so the insanity continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is your villageThis is your village after the US military &#8220;saves it&#8221; Any questions? Because of activities by the Taliban in Tarok Kolache in Afghanistan, they basically occupied it, the US obliterated it with over 25 tons of munitions, but that&#8217;s OK, because it&#8217;s not like the Afghans are people deserving of consideration: As &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,969,982,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-evil","category-stupid","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187944"}],"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=187944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}