{"id":28318,"date":"2012-01-14T11:58:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T15:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28318"},"modified":"2012-01-14T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T16:00:12","slug":"back-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28318","title":{"rendered":"Back to the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/soldiers-in-kuwait-to-serve-as-a-response-force-1.165970\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that 15,000 US troops will remain in Kuwait as a reaction force for events in the region, that details haven&#8217;t been worked out yet, and there&#8217;s no &#8220;light at the end of the tunnel&#8221;. Those of you from 1st Cav will be happy to learn that Division finds itself in the first rotation;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As of last week, the U.S. contingent consisted of soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, and the 34th Infantry Division of the Minnesota National Guard, among others. Both belong to the 1st Brigade Combat Team. Also in the mix is the 29th Combat Aviation Brigade of the Maryland National Guard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, this is reminiscent of the reaction force that Bill Clinton stationed in Kuwait after he found out that deploying a force to Kuwait every time Saddam Hussein (remember him?) farted was just too costly. So here we are, back at the point in time before the 2003 invasion of Hussein&#8217;s Iraq. And the reason we had to station troops in Kuwait in the 90s was because we neglected to finish the job in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Ain&#8217;t it just hilarious how history continues to repeat itself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripes reports that 15,000 US troops will remain in Kuwait as a reaction force &hellip; <a title=\"Back to the future\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28318\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back to the future<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28318","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=28318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}