{"id":198683,"date":"2007-10-18T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T02:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/18\/united-nations-panel-says-contractors-akin-to-merceneries\/"},"modified":"2007-10-18T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T02:53:00","slug":"united-nations-panel-says-contractors-akin-to-merceneries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/18\/united-nations-panel-says-contractors-akin-to-merceneries\/","title":{"rendered":"United Nations Panel Says Contractors &#8220;Akin to Merceneries:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/21353883\/\">United States Government strenuously objects<\/a> to this characterization, but if the shoe fits&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, these folks are performing explicitly military tasks, and as such, they are mercenaries.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice that other folks are recognizing this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Government strenuously objects to this characterization, but if the shoe fits&#8230;. Seriously, these folks are performing explicitly military tasks, and as such, they are mercenaries. It&#8217;s nice that other folks are recognizing this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,964,1179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-foreign-relations","category-mercenaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198683"}],"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=198683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}