{"id":200,"date":"2006-12-14T07:28:11","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T13:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/12\/14\/200\/"},"modified":"2006-12-14T07:28:56","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T13:28:56","slug":"200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"The Wrong Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Kelly at Irish Pennants <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishpennants.com\/archives\/2006\/12\/president_kenne.php\">on the ISG report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The truth, which the ISG&#8217;s aging luminaries lack more the guts than the brains to grasp, is that Iran and Syria are now our principal enemies, both in Iraq and in the broader war on terror. Without their interference, sectarian violence in Iraq would swiftly and sharply decline.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If there&#8217;s been one big overarching mistake in the War on Terror, it may have been that Iran and Syria needed to be taken out of the war (not necessarily militarily) at the same time, or before, Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the US government is doing effectively nothing to destabilize Ahmadinejad &#8211; in the same sense that Reagan, Thatcher, Pope John Paul II and, of all people, the AFL-CIO&#8217;s Lane Kirkland &#8211; did to destabilize the Soviets and the Warsaw Pact with their support of Polish labor unions and Czech and other Eastern European dissidents &#8211; is, to use my gift of understatement, a crying shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Kelly at Irish Pennants on the ISG report: The truth, which the ISG&#8217;s aging luminaries lack more the guts than the brains to grasp, is that Iran and Syria are now our principal enemies, both in Iraq and in the broader war on terror. Without their interference, sectarian violence in Iraq would swiftly and [&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-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}