{"id":199239,"date":"2007-08-22T05:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/22\/contractors-in-iraq-have-become-u-s-crutch-washingtonpost-com\/"},"modified":"2007-08-22T05:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T10:24:00","slug":"contractors-in-iraq-have-become-u-s-crutch-washingtonpost-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/22\/contractors-in-iraq-have-become-u-s-crutch-washingtonpost-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Contractors in Iraq Have Become U.S. Crutch &#8211; washingtonpost.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/08\/19\/AR2007081901314.html\">Washington Post has an article on how <strike>mercenaries<\/strike> contractors have become essential in allowing our overstretched army to function in Iraq<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is what killed the Roman Empire, it&#8217;s a destructive and immoral turn of affairs, and it further weakens the army by pulling people high value skills into mercenary duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has an article on how mercenaries contractors have become essential in allowing our overstretched army to function in Iraq. This is what killed the Roman Empire, it&#8217;s a destructive and immoral turn of affairs, and it further weakens the army by pulling people high value skills into mercenary duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199239"}],"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=199239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}