{"id":919,"date":"2007-11-27T14:04:08","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T18:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/27\/were-doomed\/"},"modified":"2007-11-27T20:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T00:46:00","slug":"were-doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re Doomed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><strong>One of the most important lessons of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is that military success is not sufficient to win<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">That sounds like something from the Huffington Post, or Democratic Underground, doesn&#8217;t it. But it&#8217;s not. Those are the words of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Yeah, the Secretary of Defense says military success is not sufficient to win. What the Hell?<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I am at once astonished and yet, not surprised. The job of the Secretary of Defense is to ensure our military has what it needs to kick the hell out of our enemies. It is NOT his job to be a cheerleader for peace and diplomacy. His job starts when diplomacy ends.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/politicsNews\/idUSN2640871520071126?feedType=RSS&#038;feedName=politicsNews&#038;rpc=22&#038;sp=true\">Reuters story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most important lessons of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is that military &hellip; <a title=\"We&#8217;re Doomed\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=919\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We&#8217;re Doomed<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","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\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}