{"id":27873,"date":"2011-12-11T17:24:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T21:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27873"},"modified":"2011-12-11T17:24:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T21:24:37","slug":"oh-well-wapo-opines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27873","title":{"rendered":"Oh Well&#8230; WAPO Opines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did NOT read the whole article, mind you. It does seem that numbers, and events, are being resurrected to make some point?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/civilian-deaths-at-root-of-us-iraqi-disconnect\/2011\/12\/05\/gIQAuKFglO_story.html?tid=pm_pop\" target=\"_blank\">Damn those Americans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These paragraphs stopped me from reading further:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So the troops are going home this month, leaving a question mark over what had been one of the chief goals of the war \u2014 to nurture a strategic ally in the heart of the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>They leave behind a legacy that will forever be tainted in the minds of many Iraqis by the casualties inflicted by the American military on civilians. It\u2019s the raw nerve that jangles, a sensitivity that grates on both sides even as the troops stream out of the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Dance begins.<\/p>\n<p>It is rather obvious that we are seeing an attempt to paint those who served in Iraq with the same brush that us &#8216;Nam vets were painted with? Seems a bit late to the table, mind you, but we will see.<\/p>\n<p>YMMV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did NOT read the whole article, mind you. It does seem that numbers, and events, are being resurrected to make some point? Damn those Americans These paragraphs stopped me from reading further: So the troops are going home this month, leaving a question mark over what had been one of the chief goals of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-7fz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}