{"id":194541,"date":"2008-09-15T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/15\/what-the-war-nerd-said\/"},"modified":"2008-09-15T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T00:51:00","slug":"what-the-war-nerd-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/15\/what-the-war-nerd-said\/","title":{"rendered":"What the War Nerd Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Brecher makes a very good point, that <a href=\"http:\/\/exiledonline.com\/please-dont-help-the-georgians\/\">the Neocons who are suggesting that Georgia needs to be reorganized along the lines of Hezbollah<\/a> do <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not<\/span> have the best interest of the Georgians at heart.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, as the War Nerd so eloquently puts it, &#8220;America\u2019s chickenhawks are ready to turn Georgia into a nation of missing-relative-seeking refugees.&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>I\u2019m pretty sure if you asked any Georgians, they\u2019d screech, \u201cAgh! No! We don\u2019t want to live like Hezbollah, cowering in our huts under constant bombardment, raising kids with no prospects but martyrdom!\u201d But then the neocons haven\u2019t asked anybody in Georgia. Safe in their living rooms, they think it\u2019d be a great idea for Georgia, a very unwarlike little middle-class country, to try to imitate the Lebanese Shia who make up Hezbollah\u2019s suicide squads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Brecher makes a very good point, that the Neocons who are suggesting that Georgia needs to be reorganized along the lines of Hezbollah do not have the best interest of the Georgians at heart. Rather, as the War Nerd so eloquently puts it, &#8220;America\u2019s chickenhawks are ready to turn Georgia into a nation of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[984,1040,978,1033,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-former-soviet-union","category-politics","category-russia","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194541"}],"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=194541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}