{"id":194445,"date":"2008-09-22T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/22\/the-truth-about-the-surge-its-ethinc-cleansing\/"},"modified":"2008-09-22T07:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T12:44:00","slug":"the-truth-about-the-surge-its-ethinc-cleansing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/22\/the-truth-about-the-surge-its-ethinc-cleansing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About the Surge: It&#8217;s Ethinc Cleansing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study of satellite imagery, finding vacant houses by the absence of lights noted that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ethnic cleansing was essentially complete<\/span> by the time that the surge began, and is in fact <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">a major reason for the reduction of ethnic violence<\/span>. (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/newsOne\/idUSN1953066020080919\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/warisboring.com\/?p=1367\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8220;Our findings suggest that the surge has had <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">no observable effect<\/span>, except insofar as it has helped to provide a seal of approval for a process of ethno-sectarian neighborhood homogenization that is now largely achieved,&#8221; Agnew&#8217;s team wrote in their report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>Heck of a surge, Davie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study of satellite imagery, finding vacant houses by the absence of lights noted that ethnic cleansing was essentially complete by the time that the surge began, and is in fact a major reason for the reduction of ethnic violence. (see here and here) &#8220;Our findings suggest that the surge has had no observable effect, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[981,1063],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194445"}],"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=194445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}