{"id":21427,"date":"2010-12-08T03:36:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T07:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21427"},"modified":"2010-12-20T21:11:45","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T01:11:45","slug":"i-called-it-rethink-afghanistan-now-targeting-tanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21427","title":{"rendered":"I called it, Rethink  Afghanistan now targeting Tanks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I made this comment about Rethink Afghanistan targeting out air support. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I imagine that at this rate there will be protests that we are using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21367\">lethal rounds <\/a>when fighting that might go astray. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well now my fears are not unfounded with this<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/note.php?note_id=162716067105444&#038;id=54124414652&#038;ref=mf\"> new story<\/a> from Rethink Afghanistan. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-ash2\/hs453.ash2\/72652_480727284652_54124414652_5565305_5524709_n.jpg\" title=\"Have Tanks?\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"400\" height=\"331\" \/><br \/>\nNOT WORTH IT: Each tank sent to Afghanistan War cost taxpayers $4 million <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep now direct fire support cost too much, except that now we are only sending 13 tanks over there. But lets review. First they were against<a href=\"http:\/\/rethinkafghanistan.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/report-one-in-three-killed-by-drones-in-pakistan-is-a-civilian\/\"> drones<\/a>, then against <a href=\"http:\/\/rethinkafghanistan.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/u-s-military-still-lying-about-special-forces-night-raid-in-afghanistan\/\">Special Operations <\/a>units, then the <a href=\"http:\/\/rethinkafghanistan.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/the-strategic-harm-of-civilian-casualties\/\">manned air strikes<\/a> and now we are targeting Tanks. What next,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/home\/features\/2007\/mrap\/\"> the MRAP&#8217;s<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>It is bad enough that we are getting our legs kicked out from under us an wonder why we are having trouble standing.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nAdded Sporkmaster<\/strong>: December 20th 2010.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/note.php?note_id=161176340592750&#038;id=54124414652\">HIMARS rocket launcher<\/a> is not worth it ether. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I made this comment about Rethink Afghanistan targeting out air support. I &hellip; <a title=\"I called it, Rethink  Afghanistan now targeting Tanks.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21427\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I called it, Rethink  Afghanistan now targeting Tanks.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21427","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\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}