{"id":67461,"date":"2016-08-15T10:05:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T14:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67461"},"modified":"2016-08-15T10:05:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T14:05:52","slug":"benghazi-redux-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67461","title":{"rendered":"Benghazi Redux?  Maybe."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;I know the U.S. Embassy was working on a plan, but it&#8217;s a shell of what they need. There appears to be a lack of coordinated effort between the U.S. Embassy and the American companies and personnel here . . . .&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, the above was written about Benghazi, right?\u00a0 Um, that would be a, &#8220;No.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The above is a statement by Mike Warren, a security director for the USAID-backed Mining Investment and Development for Afghanistan Sustainability Project.\u00a0 He\u2019s referring to the current state of US emergency evacuation planning for Afghanistan should things go bad there.<\/p>\n<p>As Santayana said:\u00a0 &#8220;Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Circa.com <em><a href=\"http:\/\/circa.com\/world\/contractors-in-afghanistan-say-us-hasnt-shared-escape-plan-in-case-of-major-attack\">has a detailed article discussing the above<\/a><\/em> today.\u00a0 IMO it\u2019s worth reading.<\/p>\n<p>Sheesh.\u00a0 If the linked article is anywhere near accurate, nothing has changed.\u00a0 DoS appears to be just as institutionally clueless and inept as it was 4 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>But for the current\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <del>gang of fools and tools calling the shots in DC<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Administration, being institutionally clueless and inept is nothing new.\u00a0 Besides:\u00a0 &#8220;What difference does it make?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I know the U.S. Embassy was working on a plan, but it&#8217;s a shell of what &hellip; <a title=\"Benghazi Redux?  Maybe.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67461\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Benghazi Redux?  Maybe.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,220,213,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67461","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}