{"id":43088,"date":"2014-06-17T08:55:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T14:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/17\/cant-tell-your-middle-east-players-without-a-program.html"},"modified":"2014-06-17T16:08:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T22:08:25","slug":"cant-tell-your-middle-east-players-without-a-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/17\/cant-tell-your-middle-east-players-without-a-program.html","title":{"rendered":"Can&#39;t tell your Middle East players without a program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Yeah, I know, it&#39;s just <i>crazy talk<\/i> to want to figure out who these &quot;ISIS&quot; folks are, how the Iraqi peoples are reacting to them, who&#39;s funding them, etc., when we <i>all<\/i> know that the easy (and patriotic!) answer is simply to unleash shock and awe and send in the Marines and the Army and the Air Force and possibly the Coast Guard. After all, that worked so well last time to establish a stable Iraq.\ufeff<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='overflow:hidden;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/nmrxvcdc0-KTyoqmiFrUGfRfFE27lLCPBkjx3fnXPV_PHaUD5KF1b0SRzB6shVPym--EihAUt90f38tVNzYpiNbtxY3qxnDi9l-OFYoyYV_7=w120-h120' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/dish.andrewsullivan.com\/2014\/06\/16\/who-are-these-isis-chappies-anyway-ctd'>Who Are These ISIS Chappies, Anyway? Ctd<\/a><br \/>\n                                                In a lengthy but essential overview of\u00a0the dynamics at play in\u00a0Iraq, Kenneth Pollack cuts through some of the rhetorical bullshit, noting, for instance, that ISIS isn&#8217;t just made up of foreign figh&#8230;\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/bErKLQ6Bb6q' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I know, it&#39;s just crazy talk to want to figure out who these &quot;ISIS&quot; folks are, how the Iraqi peoples are reacting to them, who&#39;s funding them, etc., when we all know that the easy (and patriotic!) answer is simply to unleash shock and awe and send in the Marines and the Army and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/17\/cant-tell-your-middle-east-players-without-a-program.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can&#39;t tell your Middle East players without a program&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43104,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43088\/revisions\/43104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}