{"id":193632,"date":"2008-12-01T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/01\/the-war-nerd-on-mumbai\/"},"modified":"2008-12-01T20:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T01:45:00","slug":"the-war-nerd-on-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/01\/the-war-nerd-on-mumbai\/","title":{"rendered":"The War Nerd on Mumbai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trust Gary Brecher to <a href=\"http:\/\/exiledonline.com\/mumbai-exporting-pakistans-resources\/\">cut to the chase<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So what you see here is something economists would understand as well or better than traditional military analysts. I hate to sound cold-blooded, putting it this way, but what happened is that Pakistan\u2019s Islamists had a surplus of raw labor, and thought of a way to get it to a place where it maximized its global value in terms of pure blood and destruction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is remarkable just how badly Carter and Brezinski&#8217;s purchase of a civil war in Afghanistan in the 1970s has screwed up that entire region.<\/p>\n<p>Go read the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trust Gary Brecher to cut to the chase: So what you see here is something economists would understand as well or better than traditional military analysts. I hate to sound cold-blooded, putting it this way, but what happened is that Pakistan\u2019s Islamists had a surplus of raw labor, and thought of a way to get &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,1151,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-south-asia","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193632"}],"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=193632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}