{"id":2007,"date":"2003-12-07T14:05:45","date_gmt":"2003-12-08T06:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/07\/our-strategy-in-iraq\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T14:31:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T22:31:30","slug":"our-strategy-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/07\/our-strategy-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Our strategy in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  You have to understand the Arab mind. The only thing they understand is force &#8212; force, pride and saving face.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Captain Todd Brown<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  With a heavy dose of fear and violence, and a lot of money for projects, I think we can convince these people that we are here to help them.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Sassaman<\/p>\n<p>Great. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/12\/07\/international\/middleeast\/07TACT.html?ex=1386133200&amp;en=b502ae4c549da2f4&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND\" title=\"Tough New Tactics by U.S. Tighten Grip on Iraq Towns\">Racism and beating the Iraqis into submission<\/a>. There&#8217;s a winning tactic for you.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/30069\" title=\"Best quote of the week\">MeFi<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a heavy dose of fear and violence, and a lot of money for projects, I think we can convince these people that we are here to help them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2042],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007"}],"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=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}