{"id":44677,"date":"2014-06-05T07:06:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T12:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44677"},"modified":"2014-07-15T09:31:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T14:31:57","slug":"the-right-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44677","title":{"rendered":"The Right War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2008, Candidate Obama assured us the war in Iraq was the wrong war.  He wanted to fight the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/afghanistan-will-be-obamas-war\/\">right war in Afghanistan<\/a>, against the Taliban.<br \/>\nIn 2014, President Obama surrendered the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/obama-bergdahl-deal-circumstances-american-soldier-back-article-1.1814986\">Taliban high leadership<\/a> back to the enemy and announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/28\/world\/asia\/us-to-complete-afghan-pullout-by-end-of-2016-obama-to-say.html?_r=0\">American troops will be leaving Afghanistan.<\/a><br \/>\nHe picked the war.  He lost it.  His legacy.<br \/>\nJoe Doakes\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Even those of us who tacitly agreed that Afghanistan needed the most emphasis have to be disappointed by Obama&#8217;s performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: In 2008, Candidate Obama assured us the war in Iraq was the wrong war. He wanted to fight the right war in Afghanistan, against the Taliban. In 2014, President Obama surrendered the Taliban high leadership back to the enemy and announced American troops will be leaving Afghanistan. He picked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,131,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-war-and-peace","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44677","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=44677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45750,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44677\/revisions\/45750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}