{"id":2031,"date":"2007-11-03T10:10:04","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T18:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2007-11-03T10:10:04","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T18:10:04","slug":"military-strategy-for-dummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=2031","title":{"rendered":"military strategy for dummies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When they say &#8220;we&#8217;re fighting them in Iraq so that we don&#8217;t have to fight them at home,&#8221; what do they mean?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m imagining wannabe-terrorists throughout the Moslem world moaning, &#8220;I&#8217;d like to go to the Great Satan and blow shit up, but I can&#8217;t get past that cursed roadblock in Baghdad!&#8221; .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. but that&#8217;s just silly.<\/p>\n<p>Is Iraq vital to terrorist logistics?  Almost as silly, but maybe the War Party has got enough of the People convinced of it.<\/p>\n<p>One other interpretation makes sense to me: that &#8220;our&#8221; forces are in Iraq to provide the terrorists with a more convenient and conspicuous target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When they say &#8220;we&#8217;re fighting them in Iraq so that we don&#8217;t have to fight them at home,&#8221; what do they mean? I&#8217;m imagining wannabe-terrorists throughout the Moslem world moaning, &#8220;I&#8217;d like to go to the Great Satan and blow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=2031\">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":[38,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-militaria","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","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=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}