{"id":19110,"date":"2011-03-30T11:12:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T17:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19110"},"modified":"2011-03-30T11:12:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T17:12:48","slug":"what-if-we-got-into-a-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19110","title":{"rendered":"What If We Got Into A War&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but only did it in a half-in, half-out, half-assed kind of way, so that when all was said and done our intervention <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703712504576232021454699618.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories\">really didn&#8217;t lead to our intended result at all<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Forces loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi continued to push rebels out of positions along coastal oil towns, further delaying the rebel drive on Tripoli and testing the limits of the coalition air strikes at a time when the alliance is considering arming Col. Gadhafi&#8217;s opponents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So let&#8217;s get this straight; we went to war a month late, in support of &#8220;rebels&#8221; who very well may end up our enemies &#8211; <em>and <\/em>we may fail anyway?<\/p>\n<p>Wow.\u00a0 Too bad we couldn&#8217;t find a ward heeler with some foreign policy experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but only did it in a half-in, half-out, half-assed kind of way, so that when all was said and done our intervention really didn&#8217;t lead to our intended result at all? Forces loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi continued to push rebels out of positions along coastal oil towns, further delaying the rebel drive on Tripoli [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-and-peace","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19112,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19110\/revisions\/19112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}