{"id":51955,"date":"2015-03-12T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51955"},"modified":"2015-03-11T21:57:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T02:57:03","slug":"strange-bedfellows-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51955","title":{"rendered":"Strange Bedfellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We can\u2019t disarm Iran.\u00a0 We<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/06\/world\/middleeast\/us-strategy-in-iraq-increasingly-relies-on-iran.html?_r=0\"> need them to help Iraq take Tikrit away from ISIS<\/a>while we watch.Yes, Tikrit.\u00a0 Saddam Hussein\u2019s birthplace.\u00a0 The town we conquered in 2003 and killed all the terrorists, then handed over to the Iraqi government after Saddam was dead.<\/p>\n<p>We took it, we had it, we cleaned it terrorist-free.\u00a0 Obama pulled out the troops in 2011 and the terrorists took it back.<\/p>\n<p>At least Johnson had a rationale for taking the hill to show the Vietnamese we could smash them, then giving it back to show we could be reasoned with.\u00a0 What\u2019s Obama\u2019s strategery?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the one hand, using proxies to do your dirty work was always how smart emperors handled their foreign policies.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Obama is not smart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: We can\u2019t disarm Iran.\u00a0 We need them to help Iraq take Tikrit away from ISISwhile we watch.Yes, Tikrit.\u00a0 Saddam Hussein\u2019s birthplace.\u00a0 The town we conquered in 2003 and killed all the terrorists, then handed over to the Iraqi government after Saddam was dead. We took it, we had it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51955","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=51955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51958,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51955\/revisions\/51958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}