{"id":195616,"date":"2008-06-26T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/26\/very-wise\/"},"modified":"2008-06-26T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T22:42:00","slug":"very-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/26\/very-wise\/","title":{"rendered":"Very Wise:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Henley of Unqualified Offerings <a href=\"http:\/\/highclearing.com\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/06\/25\/8352\">notes the following about the surge<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The pretended meaning is, The US increased troop strength in Iraq for a period of time beginning in 2007. The actual meaning is, the US increased troop strength WHILE ramping up a program to pay off Sunni resistance leaders WHILE Iraq\u2019s warring ethno-religious factions finished completely remaking Iraq\u2019s demographic patterns, owing to tens-to-hundreds of thousands of dead and millions of exiled and internally displaced, WHILE the US turned the capital into a warren of barricades. The net result of all those changes has been a less obtrusively violent Iraq for the time being, and the whole arrangement is &#8216;The Surge&#8217; in practice, but the cheerleaders talk as if it was all due to The Surge in pretense. Meanwhile Iraq\u2019s &#8216;calm&#8217; would count as calamity almost anywhere on earth but Darfur or Zimbabwe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Very well said, young man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Henley of Unqualified Offerings notes the following about the surge: The pretended meaning is, The US increased troop strength in Iraq for a period of time beginning in 2007. The actual meaning is, the US increased troop strength WHILE ramping up a program to pay off Sunni resistance leaders WHILE Iraq\u2019s warring ethno-religious factions &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-195616","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\/195616"}],"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=195616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}