{"id":200471,"date":"2021-04-01T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/04\/01\/tweet-of-the-day-326\/"},"modified":"2021-04-01T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T23:22:00","slug":"tweet-of-the-day-326","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/04\/01\/tweet-of-the-day-326\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweet of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The only thing I would add to this is how defensive officials I talk to get when I say plainly that America lost the Afghanistan war. It\u2019s instinctive, tribal and revealing, a glitch in the matrix of American Exceptionalism. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vmHcgeab2M\">https:\/\/t.co\/vmHcgeab2M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/attackerman\/status\/1377773170019733508?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>   Mixed emotions on this one, but just on the semantics.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t think that we <b>LOST<\/b> the war in Afghanistan, I think that the Afghans <b>BEAT<\/b> us.<\/p>\n<p>The phrasing of &#8220;Lost&#8221; implies that the agency was all on the part of the us, but the American public lacked the will to continue.&nbsp; (It&#8217;s called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smirkingchimp.com\/thread\/845\">Green Lantern theory of geopolitics<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>This terminology allowed our military to learn nothing but how to lie to the American public in response to the Vietnam debacle.<\/p>\n<p>In Afghanistan, much like in Vietnam, we were beaten, and once again, we will learn nothing from this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing I would add to this is how defensive officials I talk to get when I say plainly that America lost the Afghanistan war. It\u2019s instinctive, tribal and revealing, a glitch in the matrix of American Exceptionalism. https:\/\/t.co\/vmHcgeab2M \u2014 Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) April 2, 2021 Mixed emotions on this one, but just on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,1092,987,1011,1006,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-culture","category-fail","category-history","category-military","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200471"}],"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=200471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}