{"id":197449,"date":"2008-02-04T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/04\/wanton-bombing-the-hallmark-of-a-failed-counter-insurgency-campaign\/"},"modified":"2008-02-04T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T22:39:00","slug":"wanton-bombing-the-hallmark-of-a-failed-counter-insurgency-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/04\/wanton-bombing-the-hallmark-of-a-failed-counter-insurgency-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanton Bombing, the Hallmark of a Failed Counter-Insurgency Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A convoy comes under fire, and as opposed to clearing the area with troops, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2008\/02\/9_iraqi_civilians_accidentally.php\">an air strike is called in<\/a>, killing 9 innocent Iraqi civilians.<\/p>\n<p>This is a mark of a <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">failing<\/span> counterinsurgency effort.<\/p>\n<p>You just killed 9 innocents, and you created a few more insurgents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A convoy comes under fire, and as opposed to clearing the area with troops, an air strike is called in, killing 9 innocent Iraqi civilians. This is a mark of a failing counterinsurgency effort. You just killed 9 innocents, and you created a few more insurgents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1063,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197449"}],"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=197449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}