{"id":130,"date":"2008-07-14T13:26:53","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T18:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2008-07-14T13:26:53","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T18:26:53","slug":"trapped-in-afghanistan-by-our-own-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2008\/07\/14\/trapped-in-afghanistan-by-our-own-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"Trapped In Afghanistan By Our Own Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Obama OpEd in New York Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/14\/opinion\/14obama.html?_r=2&amp;oref=slogin&amp;pagewanted=print&amp;oref=slogin\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the OpEd Piece in the New York Times by Barack Obama\u00a0 about withdrawing our troops from Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>A paragraph toward the end of the piece caught my attention:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As president, I would pursue a new strategy, and begin by providing at least two additional combat brigades to support our effort in Afghanistan. We need more troops, more helicopters, better intelligence-gathering and more nonmilitary assistance to accomplish the mission there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Has he noticed how this is turning into the quagmire that finally defeated the Soviet Union? We can try more troops, but\u00a0 be prepared with Plan B.<\/p>\n<p>The constant primary campaign rhetoric that Iraq was the wrong war and Afghanistan was the right war might get us trapped into a hopeless situation.\u00a0 I hope Obama is a lot smarter than he appeared to be when he helped the Democratic Party to bungle the handling of the recent FISA bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the OpEd Piece in the New York Times by Barack Obama\u00a0 about withdrawing our troops from Iraq. A paragraph toward the end of the piece caught my attention: As president, I would pursue a new strategy, and begin by providing at least two additional combat brigades to support our effort in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-periodic-posts","7":"tag-politics","8":"tag-war","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}