{"id":17551,"date":"2014-06-23T15:37:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T19:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=17551"},"modified":"2014-06-23T15:39:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T19:39:59","slug":"bill-maher-on-how-we-cannot-change-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/06\/23\/bill-maher-on-how-we-cannot-change-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher on how we cannot change Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Daily Kos<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/06\/21\/1308582\/-Bill-Maher-on-how-we-cannot-change-Iraq?detail=email\" title=\"The Daily Kos article\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Maher on how we cannot change Iraq<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Quoting Bill Maher, they have:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAnd finally, New Rule: Now that Iraq is falling apart again, someone needs to drill it into the American psyche that broken nations are a lot like broken people \u2014 you can&#8217;t fix them.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/iiyFMCPZc8Q?rel=0\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>You can skip the first 3&frac12; minutes of this almost 8 minute video, but that last part is worth its weight in gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Kos has the article Bill Maher on how we cannot change Iraq. Quoting Bill Maher, they have: And finally, New Rule: Now that Iraq is falling apart again, someone needs to drill it into the American psyche that broken nations are a lot like broken people \u2014 you can&#8217;t fix them. You can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17551","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17553,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17551\/revisions\/17553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}