{"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":"

\n You have to understand the Arab mind. The only thing they understand is force — force, pride and saving face.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Captain Todd Brown<\/p>\n

\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

— Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Sassaman<\/p>\n

Great. Racism and beating the Iraqis into submission<\/a>. There’s a winning tactic for you.<\/p>\n

(via MeFi<\/a>)

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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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}]}}