{"id":1694,"date":"2005-08-29T20:45:43","date_gmt":"2005-08-30T04:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2005-08-29T20:48:14","modified_gmt":"2005-08-30T04:48:14","slug":"still-not-settled-down-yet-give-it-another-good-shake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1694","title":{"rendered":"still not settled down yet; give it another good shake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why &#8220;we&#8221; went to war, version 7 or so: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/wn_report\/story\/335938p-286948c.html\">Rummy says<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> You do not defeat Al Qaeda until you stabilize the Middle East, and that&#8217;s not possible as long as Saddam Hussein is in power. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Cited, for other reasons, by <a href=\"http:\/\/desperado-list.blogspot.com\/2005_08_01_desperado-list_archive.html#112393680768373903\">Tom Parmenter (Desperado)<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives by definition have an exaggerated regard for stability, but this is a strange kind of stabilizing; things settle down sooner, in my experience, if kept <em>away<\/em> from explosions.  Anyway, wasn&#8217;t Saddam&#8217;s state tolerably stable over the previous twenty years?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why &#8220;we&#8221; went to war, version 7 or so: Rummy says You do not defeat Al Qaeda until you stabilize the Middle East, and that&#8217;s not possible as long as Saddam Hussein is in power. (Cited, for other reasons, by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1694\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-militaria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}