{"id":1474,"date":"2003-07-21T03:19:19","date_gmt":"2003-07-21T17:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/21\/practice-makes-perfect\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:31:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:31:47","slug":"practice-makes-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/21\/practice-makes-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice makes perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  Still, &#91;Douglas J. Feith, the No.\u00a03 official at the Pentagon&#93; and other Pentagon officials said, they are studying the lessons of Iraq closely &#8212; to ensure that the next U.S. takeover of a foreign country goes more smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;We&#8217;re going to get better over time,&#8221; promised Lawrence Di Rita, a special assistant to Rumsfeld. &#8220;We&#8217;ve always thought of post-hostilities as a phase&#8221; distinct from combat, he said. \\&#8221;The future of war is that these things are going to be much more of a continuum.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;This is the future for the world we&#8217;re in at the moment,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;ll get better as we do it more often.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; The final three paragraphs of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/templates\/misc\/printstory.jsp?slug=la-na-postwar18jul18012420&amp;section=\/printstory\" title=\"Preparing for War, Stumbling to Peace\">this LA Times article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2003_07_20_atrios_archive.html#105878946732173963\" title=\"Burying the Lede\">Atrios<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;This is the future for the world we&#8217;re in at the moment,&#8217; he said. &#8216;We&#8217;ll get better as we do it more often.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}