{"id":30518,"date":"2012-06-25T09:31:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T13:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30518"},"modified":"2012-06-25T09:31:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T13:31:57","slug":"duffel-blog-powerpoint-slide-credited-with-ending-war-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30518","title":{"rendered":"Duffel Blog: PowerPoint slide credited with ending war in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s satire because it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2012\/06\/mission-accomplished-soldier-screws-up-power-point-slide-ends-war-afghanistan\/\">The Duffle Blog<\/a>. you know what satire is, right? Well this is satire;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI just gotta say, this is a great day for the US Military, and our country as a whole,\u201d said General Scapparotti.<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers mobbed Dining Facilities (DFACs) across the war-torn nation in search of non-alcoholic beer to celebrate the historic event, while back on the home-front, millions of citizens took to the streets in thousands of impromptu \u201dvictory parties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cause for all of the celebration lies in the assessment slide at the center of the main briefing screen in the Kabul IJC \u2014  headquarters for the entire war effort. It shows a map of Afghanistan, with a block next to each Province, indicating the progress in that particular region.  For the first time in the history of the now 11 year war, all blocks are colored green.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, cuz nothing says &#8220;victory&#8221; like near-beer. Did I mention that it&#8217;s satire? That&#8217;s why if you look out your window, no one is celebrating our victory in Afghanistan. Because it&#8217;s satire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s satire because it&#8217;s The Duffle Blog. you know what satire is, right? Well this is &hellip; <a title=\"Duffel Blog: PowerPoint slide credited with ending war in Afghanistan\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30518\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Duffel Blog: PowerPoint slide credited with ending war in Afghanistan<\/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":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30518","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=30518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}