{"id":195417,"date":"2008-07-10T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/10\/pakistan-appears-to-be-sliding-into-talibanization\/"},"modified":"2008-07-10T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T22:22:00","slug":"pakistan-appears-to-be-sliding-into-talibanization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/10\/pakistan-appears-to-be-sliding-into-talibanization\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Appears to Be Sliding Into Talibanization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The relative safety and success of the Taliban and related groups in Pakistan&#8217;s tribal areas appears to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/10\/world\/asia\/10terror.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">to be encouraging more militant Islamists to move men to the area as a base<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve said before that Pakistan is nearly a failed state, and it appears to be getting nearer, all while possessing a significant nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The relative safety and success of the Taliban and related groups in Pakistan&#8217;s tribal areas appears to be to be encouraging more militant Islamists to move men to the area as a base. I&#8217;ve said before that Pakistan is nearly a failed state, and it appears to be getting nearer, all while possessing a significant &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1044,1151,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-weapons","category-south-asia","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195417"}],"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=195417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}