{"id":23790,"date":"2011-06-08T15:12:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T19:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23790"},"modified":"2011-06-08T15:12:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T19:12:15","slug":"in-geezer-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23790","title":{"rendered":"In Geezer News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Henry (Peace With Honor) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/how-to-exit-afghanistan-without-creating-wider-conflict\/2011\/06\/06\/AG9ydPLH_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kissinger Has weighed in on Afghanistan.<\/a> Nixon actually said that, but it was Kissinger who sold it.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly,\u00a0 I thought Henry was dead, but?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The American role in Afghanistan is drawing to a close in a manner  paralleling the pattern of three other inconclusive wars since the  Allied victory in World War II: a wide consensus in entering them, and  growing disillusionment as the war drags on, shading into an intense  national search for an exit strategy with the emphasis on exit rather  than strategy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His OpEd piece actually makes some sense, but I have trouble accepting the source. YMMV<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see, the current anti-war activists are a paltry few compared to back then, and more like clowns and yet he offers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After America\u2019s withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan and the constraint  to our strategic reach produced by the revolution in Egypt, a new  definition of American leadership and America\u2019s national interest is  inescapable. A sustainable regional settlement in Afghanistan would be a  worthy start.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, Henry; that notion actually has a track record of note.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.&#8221;\u00a0 Santayana<\/p>\n<p>Henry helped write a chapter or two, yet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry (Peace With Honor) Kissinger Has weighed in on Afghanistan. Nixon actually said that, but it &hellip; <a title=\"In Geezer News\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23790\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Geezer News<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23790","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}