{"id":46630,"date":"2014-05-10T09:40:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T13:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=46630"},"modified":"2014-05-10T09:40:59","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T13:40:59","slug":"aliens-hate-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=46630","title":{"rendered":"Aliens hate the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=46631\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-46631\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Aliens-hate-the-Taliban-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"Aliens hate the Taliban\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Aliens-hate-the-Taliban-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Aliens-hate-the-Taliban-500x320.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Aliens-hate-the-Taliban.jpg 565w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Well, doesn&#8217;t everyone? I think they hate themselves. But this video is supposed to be proof that there are aliens and they&#8217;re battling the Taliban alongside coalition forces;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YQWqiI0jlQc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that the &#8220;experts&#8221; believe it though, at least not those interviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/is-video-proof-that-aliens-hate-the-taliban-1.282313\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> \u201cThe video is pretty funny,\u201d said Samuel J. Brannen, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies who specializes in drones and other unmanned military systems.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, the purported aircraft is far too close to the target, putting it in danger both from ground fire and from the blast of its weapons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t think of a pilot I know who would want to be that close to the target once they dropped ordnance,\u201d he said. \u201cUnless it is both unmanned and you really don\u2019t care about what happens to it, why be that close?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Thomas, a B-1 bomber pilot who retired from the Air Force as a colonel early this year, pointed out a mismatch between the apparent gunshots from the craft and the effect on the ground.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to know that we&#8217;re on the side of the rest of the universe, for a change, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, doesn&#8217;t everyone? I think they hate themselves. But this video is supposed to be proof &hellip; <a title=\"Aliens hate the Taliban\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=46630\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aliens hate the Taliban<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teh-stoopid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46630","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=46630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}