{"id":15318,"date":"2009-10-28T09:50:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T14:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15318"},"modified":"2009-10-28T09:50:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T14:50:05","slug":"the-cost-of-indecision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15318","title":{"rendered":"The cost of indecision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Douglas at <a href=\"http:\/\/americanpowerblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/car-bomb-kills-dozens-in-pakistan.html\">American Power<\/a> tells us about the bomb that went off in Pakistan this morning while Hillary Clinton visited the country . <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/A\/AS_AFGHANISTAN?SITE=DCSAS&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#038;CTIME=2009-10-28-00-00-44\">Stars &#038; Stripes\/Associated Press<\/a> tells the story of gunmen attacking a guest house in Kabul killing at least 12 UN workers. <a href=\"http:\/\/rds.yahoo.com\/_ylt=A0WTTkkSV.hKE4UBtx3QtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBjdmNoOTVjBHBvcwMyBHNlYwNzcg--\/SIG=15au4a4o9\/EXP=1256827026\/**http%3a\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/middleeast\/iraq\/6445679\/Al-Qaeda-claims-responsibility-for-Iraqs-worst-suicide-bomb-attack-in-two-years.html\">The Telegraph<\/a> reports that al Qaeda accepted blame for the worst bomb attack in Iraq in years that claimed over 150 casualties (including scores of children) this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The same type of attacks preceded our 2006 mid-term election to present the appearance of the futility of the war in Iraq in order to influence the American people&#8217;s decisions. Bush surprised the entire country as well as Iraqis by increasing combat power in Iraq instead of capitulating to the enemy.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, our enemies think they have an opportunity to scare this administration into abandoning the Middle East. It&#8217;s probably not a coincidence that all of this is happening while the US is trying to solidify support in the Security Council against Iran&#8217;s nuclear ambitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Douglas at American Power tells us about the bomb that went off in Pakistan this &hellip; <a title=\"The cost of indecision\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15318\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The cost of indecision<\/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":[46,9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-foreign-policy","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15318","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=15318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}