{"id":1744,"date":"2014-06-10T20:45:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T00:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2014-06-10T20:45:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T00:45:26","slug":"ill-keep-this-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=1744","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Keep This Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read a report about how al-Qaeda in Iraq just overran the city of Mosul, Iraq&#8217;s second city and home to the heart of its northern oil industry. The al-Qaeda forces also captured the Iraqi Army&#8217;s helicopters stationed there&#8230; the helicopters we gave them&#8230; The same al-Qaeda forces that are turning Iraq into another Syria are, themselves, connected to the al-Qaeda forces that are fighting against the Bashar regime in Syria. <\/p>\n<p>Some time ago, I said that invading Iraq was a huge mistake. More recently, I said that the US&#8217; support of Syrian rebels was a huge mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I promised to keep this short, so instead of countless words spilled over the bankruptcy of US foreign policy, I&#8217;ll use just four:<\/p>\n<p>I TOLD YOU SO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read a report about how al-Qaeda in Iraq just overran the city of Mosul, Iraq&#8217;s second city and home to the heart of its northern oil industry. The al-Qaeda forces also captured the Iraqi Army&#8217;s helicopters stationed there&#8230; the helicopters we gave them&#8230; The same al-Qaeda forces that are turning Iraq into another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hellholes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}