{"id":17596,"date":"2010-02-21T14:51:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T19:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17596"},"modified":"2010-02-21T14:51:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T19:51:29","slug":"bellavia-our-mission-is-finally-accomplished%e2%80%a6-anyone-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17596","title":{"rendered":"Bellavia: Our Mission is Finally Accomplished\u2026 Anyone Care?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best friends of this blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/davidbellavia.com\/2010\/our-mission-is-finally-accomplished-anyone-care\/\">David Bellavia<\/a>, puts down his snarky pen and ruminates publicly about the cost of the war in Iraq and what it shouldmean to Americans. He begins;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I understand that there are individuals who opposed the war in Iraq from the very beginning and I believe their passion, although misguided at times, is rooted in a deep desire for peace. What always baffled me was the reaction they had to pro-victory veterans when we came home. As if we were some robotic arm of the Bush White House. It was foreign for them to understand why winning in Iraq was so important.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And ends;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you can\u2019t bring yourself to give the living the sense of accomplishment for winning a war that many claimed was endless, at least humor the dead. Allow them to rest knowing that the war that took their lives was won because of their sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>Is that too much to ask for?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I tried to add a few thoughts to David&#8217;s post, but it&#8217;s impossible. <a href=\"http:\/\/davidbellavia.com\/2010\/our-mission-is-finally-accomplished-anyone-care\/\">Go read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best friends of this blog, David Bellavia, puts down his snarky pen and &hellip; <a title=\"Bellavia: Our Mission is Finally Accomplished\u2026 Anyone Care?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17596\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bellavia: Our Mission is Finally Accomplished\u2026 Anyone Care?<\/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":[84,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17596","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=17596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}