{"id":2596,"date":"2008-05-21T06:32:40","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T11:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2008-05-21T08:13:04","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T13:13:04","slug":"unintended-neoconsequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2596","title":{"rendered":"Unintended NeoConsequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Invading Iraq &#8211; so says the opposition &#8211; caused thousands of marginalized, angry Moslems to flock to Iraq to join Al Queda.<\/p>\n<p>Where we killed them, mauled them, demoralized them, and killed them some more, to the point <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.news.com.au\/heraldsun\/andrewbolt\/index.php\/heraldsun\/comments\/jihadist_admits_al_qaeda_failure\/\">where they are a tiny fraction of what they were<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A <strong>prolific jihadist sympathizer<\/strong> has <strong>posted an \u2018explosive\u2019 study<\/strong> on one of the main jihadist websites in which he <strong>laments the dire situation that the <em>mujaheddin<\/em> find themselves in Iraq <\/strong>by citing the <strong>steep drop in the number of insurgent operations<\/strong> conducted by the various jihadist groups, most notably <strong>Al-Qaeda\u2019s 94 percent decline in operational ability over the last 12 months<\/strong> when only a year and half ago Al-Qaeda accounted for 60 percent of all jihadist activity!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read, naturally, the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives2\/2008\/05\/020564.php\">Powerline<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invading Iraq &#8211; so says the opposition &#8211; caused thousands of marginalized, angry Moslems to flock to Iraq to join Al Queda. Where we killed them, mauled them, demoralized them, and killed them some more, to the point where they are a tiny fraction of what they were. A prolific jihadist sympathizer has posted an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596","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=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}