{"id":198760,"date":"2007-10-11T23:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/11\/us-marines-want-to-leave-iraq\/"},"modified":"2007-10-11T23:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T04:22:00","slug":"us-marines-want-to-leave-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/11\/us-marines-want-to-leave-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"US Marines Want to Leave Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Marines are suggesting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/11\/washington\/11military.html?_r=2&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin\">they be redeployed from Iraq to Afghanistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With about 25,000 Marines in Iraq, and about 26,000 soldiers in Afghanistan, this would seem a relatively straightforward swap, though the obvious question is, &#8220;why?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think that it is because the Marines as a group recognize that Iraq as a lie, and while they are willing to fight, they find that fighting for a lie is disheartening.<\/p>\n<p>There is some push back on this, particularly from the USAF, because the Marines bring their own air capability, one that would probably seriously outperform the USAF, since a Marine air wing is more focused on the ground, with every pilot being a trained rifleman, which would mean less civilian casualties, and better coordination with ground troops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Marines are suggesting that they be redeployed from Iraq to Afghanistan. With about 25,000 Marines in Iraq, and about 26,000 soldiers in Afghanistan, this would seem a relatively straightforward swap, though the obvious question is, &#8220;why?&#8221; I think that it is because the Marines as a group recognize that Iraq as a lie, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,1063,1006,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-iraq","category-military","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198760"}],"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=198760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}