{"id":27873,"date":"2011-12-11T17:24:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T21:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27873"},"modified":"2011-12-11T17:24:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T21:24:37","slug":"oh-well-wapo-opines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27873","title":{"rendered":"Oh Well&#8230; WAPO Opines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did NOT read the whole article, mind you. It does seem that numbers, and events, are being resurrected to make some point?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/civilian-deaths-at-root-of-us-iraqi-disconnect\/2011\/12\/05\/gIQAuKFglO_story.html?tid=pm_pop\" target=\"_blank\">Damn those Americans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These paragraphs stopped me from reading further:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So the troops are going home this month, leaving a question mark over what had been one of the chief goals of the war \u2014 to nurture a strategic ally in the heart of the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>They leave behind a legacy that will forever be tainted in the minds of many Iraqis by the casualties inflicted by the American military on civilians. It\u2019s the raw nerve that jangles, a sensitivity that grates on both sides even as the troops stream out of the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Dance begins.<\/p>\n<p>It is rather obvious that we are seeing an attempt to paint those who served in Iraq with the same brush that us &#8216;Nam vets were painted with? Seems a bit late to the table, mind you, but we will see.<\/p>\n<p>YMMV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did NOT read the whole article, mind you. It does seem that numbers, and events, &hellip; <a title=\"Oh Well&#8230; WAPO Opines\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27873\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh Well&#8230; WAPO Opines<\/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":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27873","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=27873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}