{"id":191479,"date":"2009-08-13T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/13\/this-is-wicked-stupid\/"},"modified":"2009-08-13T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T00:21:00","slug":"this-is-wicked-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/13\/this-is-wicked-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Wicked Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the US Military is going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/14\/world\/europe\/14military.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">resume training the Georgian army<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the fact that President Mikheil Saakashvili is a truly delusional and despotic nutcase who is spoiling for another war with Russia, this is a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">very<\/span> bad idea on that level, but it&#8217;s also clear that the Georgian state security apparatus has been <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">completely<\/span> penetrated by the Russian intelligence service that they knew to the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">minute<\/span>, if not the second, when the Georgians were going to  invade South Ossetia.<\/p>\n<p>But we need bodies for Afghanistan, so we&#8217;re training them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the US Military is going to resume training the Georgian army. Considering the fact that President Mikheil Saakashvili is a truly delusional and despotic nutcase who is spoiling for another war with Russia, this is a very bad idea on that level, but it&#8217;s also clear that the Georgian state security apparatus &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,964,1040,1033,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-foreign-relations","category-former-soviet-union","category-russia","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191479"}],"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=191479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}