{"id":89737,"date":"2025-06-25T07:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89737"},"modified":"2025-06-25T07:07:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:07:22","slug":"history-is-blank-verse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89737","title":{"rendered":"History Is Blank Verse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>December 6, 1941: &#8220;A modern war would inevitably turn into a trench quagmire like the First World War&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>June 24, 1950: &#8220;The next war will be, at best, a mobile industrial clash of titans, and likeliy end with mutual nuclear annihilation&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>March 7, 1965: &#8220;This war is going to be a conventional war to contain Communist aggression&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>August 1, 1990: &#8220;This war is going to devolve into a quagmire that will destroy a generation and enervate a nation&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>October 3, 1993: &#8220;American technological power and training will enable us to walk all over these primitive tribesmen, and restore order just the way we did in Kuwait&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>October 18, 2001: &#8220;As we discovered in Mogadishu, the Islamist terrorist&#8217;s willingness to die will make any war between us an endless quagmore<\/p>\n<p>March 19, 2003: &#8220;American technological prowess and our experience liberating Afghanistan in record time will enable us to prevail against the Iraqi Army, Republican Guard and Fedayeen in short order.<\/p>\n<p>June 22, 2025: &#8220;Iran will inevitably be another Iraq&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 6, 1941: &#8220;A modern war would inevitably turn into a trench quagmire like the First World War&#8221; June 24, 1950: &#8220;The next war will be, at best, a mobile industrial clash of titans, and likeliy end with mutual nuclear annihilation&#8221; March 7, 1965: &#8220;This war is going to be a conventional war to contain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,368,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-trump-derangement","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89737","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=89737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89738,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89737\/revisions\/89738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}