{"id":195063,"date":"2008-07-31T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/31\/air-force-looks-to-escalate-in-iraq\/"},"modified":"2008-07-31T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T22:47:00","slug":"air-force-looks-to-escalate-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/31\/air-force-looks-to-escalate-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Looks to Escalate in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there is anything to be learned from the disastrous counter-insurgency experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is that the use of air power must be kept to a minimum, because the collateral damage crates more supporters for the insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this bit of knowledge appears <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/29\/world\/middleeast\/29military.html?_r=1&amp;ref=world&amp;oref=slogin\">not to have registered with the USAF<\/a>, which is looking at an expansion of its role as US troops draw down.<\/p>\n<p>This is why we need to be completely out.  Every bomb we drop risks creating anothere Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is anything to be learned from the disastrous counter-insurgency experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is that the use of air power must be kept to a minimum, because the collateral damage crates more supporters for the insurgents. Of course, this bit of knowledge appears not to have registered with the USAF, which &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1063,1006,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-iraq","category-military","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195063"}],"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=195063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}