{"id":15,"date":"2003-04-02T11:18:04","date_gmt":"2003-04-02T16:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2003-04-02T11:18:04","modified_gmt":"2003-04-02T16:18:04","slug":"some-real-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Some real commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/jrobb.userland.com\">John Robb&#8217;s Radio Weblog<\/a> (thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dotnot.org\/blog\">Scott<\/a>).  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A war for liberation requires that we arm, train, and support freedom fighters in Iraq.  We haven&#8217;t even tried to do that.  We didn&#8217;t even start serious talks with the Iraqi National Congress until last week.  The Kurds have languished in silent obscurity until recently.  The propoganda we sent into Iraq doesn&#8217;t (as far as I have seen) incite people to revolt.  Clearly, the US military didn&#8217;t want to deal with armed freedom fighters in the post Saddam military protectorate.  We didn&#8217;t want their participation.  Our inaction means that a popular revolt won&#8217;t happen.  It can&#8217;t happen.  This portion of the US strategy is clearly schizophrenic.  We want popular support, but we don&#8217;t really want it because it can get out of hand. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/jrobb.userland.com\/2003\/03\/29.html#a3220\">Source Blog<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThis guy is worth reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From John Robb&#8217;s Radio Weblog (thanks Scott). A war for liberation requires that we arm, train, and support freedom fighters in Iraq. We haven&#8217;t even tried to do that. We didn&#8217;t even start serious talks with the Iraqi National Congress until last week. The Kurds have languished in silent obscurity until recently. The propoganda we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}