{"id":635,"date":"2007-03-27T13:03:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T19:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/03\/27\/635\/"},"modified":"2007-03-27T14:20:15","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T20:20:15","slug":"635","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=635","title":{"rendered":"This Is Your Terrorist.  This Is Your Terrorist On Stress."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leftyblog &#8220;Needlenose&#8221; wrote about Arkanasas Democrat Mark Pryor&#8217;s dim-bulb &#8220;Double-dog secret withdrawal date&#8221; (secrecy guaranteed because, y&#8217;know, we&#8217;re only going to tell Congress\u00a0<em>and<\/em> the Iraqi Government) &#8211; the same one I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/03\/27\/double-dog-idea\/\">earlier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Nose&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needlenose.com\/node\/view\/3909\">comment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0Sen. Pryor, here&#8217;s a secret for you: The &#8220;enemy&#8221; is already biding their time and waiting for us to leave, save for those who are already providing chaos and mayhem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Further proof, were any needed, that Democrats are not to be trusted with the keys to the family car.<\/p>\n<p>Listen up, Nose:\u00a0 \u00a0There&#8217;s a huge difference between &#8220;biding your time&#8221; and &#8220;waiting&#8221; for us to leave when there&#8217;s not only a chance of having a helicopter send hollow-charge wake-up call through your window in the middle of the night, or bounce your rubble with a JDAM from the middle of nowhere, or have a squad of Marines barging through your door at some un-allah-ly hour, but even more so when there&#8217;s <em>no end in sight.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When you wake up knowing today could be your last, and that terrorists don&#8217;t usually get to rotate home after a year, and that every morning is going to be the same, and the stress of knowing it&#8217;s not going to change until you are dead (an ongoing stress that eventually wears down even the most fanatical fighter, causing the kind of mistakes that land those virgins)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;as opposed to knowing that if you can just hang on, hold out, keep your head low until the Labor Day weekend in a year and a half. Or, better yet, waking up in a country, or province, where the government is entirely sympathetic to you, where you can walk down to the market for some <em>babaganouj<\/em> and <em>pide<\/em> and use the phone and sit at a sidewalk cafe table with the guy who&#8217;s making your fake documents, and not worry that an SAS team is going to be mounting your head on a wall if you don&#8217;t watch your back.<\/p>\n<p>Sort of like Afghanistan, and Iraq, both were.<\/p>\n<p>The galling part, of course, is that the Dems &#8211; the ones making all the noise, anyway &#8211; don&#8217;t believe that&#8217;s a problem.\u00a0 Or don&#8217;t know any better.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leftyblog &#8220;Needlenose&#8221; wrote about Arkanasas Democrat Mark Pryor&#8217;s dim-bulb &#8220;Double-dog secret withdrawal date&#8221; (secrecy guaranteed because, y&#8217;know, we&#8217;re only going to tell Congress\u00a0and the Iraqi Government) &#8211; the same one I wrote about earlier. The Nose&#8217;s comment: \u00a0Sen. Pryor, here&#8217;s a secret for you: The &#8220;enemy&#8221; is already biding their time and waiting for us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","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=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}