{"id":29736,"date":"2012-04-30T08:42:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T12:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29736"},"modified":"2012-04-30T08:42:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T12:42:16","slug":"and-the-victory-lap-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29736","title":{"rendered":"And the victory lap continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/WaPo-victory-lap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-29737\" title=\"WaPo victory lap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/WaPo-victory-lap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/WaPo-victory-lap.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/WaPo-victory-lap-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/specialreports\/images-after-osama-bin-ladens-death\/2012\/04\/30\/gIQAImltqT_gallery.html#photo=18\">Washington Post<\/a> is helping the Obama Administration take their Zombie bin Laden victory lap with a slide show that reminds what happened a year ago when bin laden was finally killed, because, you know it was so long ago that we can hardly remember it.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it&#8217;s been repeated so man times in the last year, I was surprised that it&#8217;s been a year. But, that&#8217;s probably an age thing, anyway. But, you know this being an election year and it&#8217;s the only successful episode of this administration, the death of bin Laden is going to be the centerpiece of the campaign, and what with everyone trying to make us forget about the Fast and Furious scandal, the Secret Service scandal, the suicide rate among soldiers, the green-on-blue attacks in Afghanistan, the failures of this administration ability to institute COIN in Afghanistan, the failures of the Joe Bite Me&#8217;s ninja zombie robot strategy, the reticence of the Pakistani government to assist in the war against terror, demands on control over our tactics for the Afghans.<\/p>\n<p>And as UpNorth pointed out yesterday, it was just four short years ago that <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2012\/04\/flashback-obama-campaign-accused-clinton-of-using-bin-laden-to-score-political-points-in-2008\/\">the Obama campaign protested the Hillary Clinton campaign use of bin Laden<\/a> in the primaries.<\/p>\n<p>So I guess this the victory lap without an end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post is helping the Obama Administration take their Zombie bin Laden victory lap with &hellip; <a title=\"And the victory lap continues\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29736\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And the victory lap continues<\/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":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29736","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=29736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}