{"id":14683,"date":"2009-09-27T08:43:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T13:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14683"},"modified":"2009-09-27T08:43:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T13:43:47","slug":"how-to-make-me-anti-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14683","title":{"rendered":"How to make me anti-war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama Administration has finally found a way to make me want to join the throngs of protesters against the war in Afghanistan (from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/09\/26\/AR2009092602685.html?hpid=topnews\">Washington Post<\/a>);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Obama has not set a deadline for determining a new strategy or for committing more troops to the war in Afghanistan, despite an urgent request from his top commander, his national security adviser said Saturday. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the commanders on the ground, who understand the challenge before them, can&#8217;t get the support they need from the Administration and their commander-in-chief, why toss away the lives of soldiers and Marines?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The upcoming meetings will begin with the assumption that the McChrystal strategy is correct, Jones said, adding that the president will &#8220;encourage free-wheeling discussion&#8221; and that &#8220;nothing is off the table.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So basically, while Americans die, the suits will diddle themselves. <\/p>\n<p>As Drew M said at <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/292868.php\">Ace of Spades<\/a> last night; &#8220;Remember when Afghanistan was the essential front in the War on Man Made Disasters? Back then it was bad to take your eye off the fight there and not provide enough troops.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama Administration has finally found a way to make me want to join the throngs &hellip; <a title=\"How to make me anti-war\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14683\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to make me anti-war<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}