{"id":3833,"date":"2003-03-23T13:42:11","date_gmt":"2003-03-23T18:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3833"},"modified":"2003-03-23T13:42:11","modified_gmt":"2003-03-23T18:42:11","slug":"with_a_puff_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/23\/with_a_puff_of.html","title":{"rendered":"With a puff of inky black smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"

It occurs to me that if the US, for some reason, were to fill long, deep trenches with oil and then set it ablaze as a tactic during this war, it would be roundly condemned as an environmental terrorist. Will we hear anyone condeming Iraq for that particular tactic<\/a>?<\/p>\n

(Especially since it doesn’t seem to be working?)<\/p>\n

(via Ghost of a Flea<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It occurs to me that if the US, for some reason, were to fill long, deep trenches with oil and then set it ablaze as a tactic during this war,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45468,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/24\/the-war-in-the-trenches.html","url_meta":{"origin":3833,"position":0},"title":"The War in the Trenches","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 24-Sep-14 2:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Trench warfare was more complex than you might think, and actually not a bad idea. 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