{"id":195652,"date":"2008-06-24T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/24\/gao-surgee-no-workee\/"},"modified":"2008-06-24T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T23:01:00","slug":"gao-surgee-no-workee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/24\/gao-surgee-no-workee\/","title":{"rendered":"GAO: Surgee No Workee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GAO has just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/24\/world\/middleeast\/24gao.html\">issued a report on the surge<\/a>, and it has determined that, &#8220;The American plan for a stable Iraq lacks a strategic framework that meshes with the administration\u2019s goals, is falling out of touch with the realities on the ground and contains serious flaws in its operational guidelines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You mean Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> screwed it up????  I&#8217;m shocked.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, I am compelled to make the repeat the <a href=\"http:\/\/d-squareddigest.blogspot.com\/2003_02_23_d-squareddigest_archive.html#89796111\">wisest thing that I&#8217;ve read this century<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>But it does inspire in me the desire for a competition; can anyone, particularly the rather more Bush-friendly recent arrivals to the board, give me one single example of something with the following three characteristics:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It is a policy initiative of the current Bush administration<\/li>\n<li>It was significant enough in scale that I&#8217;d have heard of it (at a pinch, that I should have heard of it)<\/li>\n<li>It wasn&#8217;t in some important way completely f#$@ed up during the execution.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously. I&#8217;ve yet to see anything wiser yet, and I&#8217;m using the loose definition of the 21st century which includes the year 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GAO has just issued a report on the surge, and it has determined that, &#8220;The American plan for a stable Iraq lacks a strategic framework that meshes with the administration\u2019s goals, is falling out of touch with the realities on the ground and contains serious flaws in its operational guidelines.&#8221; You mean Bush and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1063,982,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-stupid","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195652"}],"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=195652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}