{"id":49289,"date":"2015-01-20T14:13:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T14:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/20\/but-first-send-the-marines.html"},"modified":"2015-01-20T14:13:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T14:13:35","slug":"but-first-send-the-marines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/20\/but-first-send-the-marines.html","title":{"rendered":"But First, Send the Marines!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all due respect to Sen. McCain and Graham (don&#39;t ask me how much is actually due), I&#39;d love for them to &quot;connect the dots&quot; on how sending troops to Iraq would actually (a) <i>save<\/i> more American lives from hypothetical terror attacks than it would <i>cost<\/i> in military casualties, and (b) how it would actually stop a Charlie Hebdo-style &quot;two guys with guns&quot; type of attack on US soil in the future.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+George Wiman<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Get tough&quot; is the conservative answer to everything. No matter how stupid and counterproductive it may be in the case at hand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/plum-line\/wp\/2015\/01\/14\/why-republican-fear-mongering-about-france-is-detached-from-reality'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/-y064NznVnubUu2KB7F4jThF9_5lfRoYTWgOmkJRpmP2ABwszj64cnYWJJ2H6vXJUVJYdxgIiDpMFITTzdR3Y2PtfkWopozzK56CQVSoawbFhub2Q_wmlVY-Hd-76x5bAou_aOmDA_GahFjSRE01ms-nRBUc0lK5o3uGZaP_mOr2L6s=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/plum-line\/wp\/2015\/01\/14\/why-republican-fear-mongering-about-france-is-detached-from-reality'>Why Republican fear-mongering about France is detached from reality<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWhat would we do without John McCain and Lindsey Graham to protect us?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/SQJdyZfeJPP'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all due respect to Sen. McCain and Graham (don&#39;t ask me how much is actually due), I&#39;d love for them to &quot;connect the dots&quot; on how sending troops to Iraq would actually (a) save more American lives from hypothetical terror attacks than it would cost in military casualties, and (b) how it would actually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/20\/but-first-send-the-marines.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;But First, Send the Marines!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51553,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/22\/applause-where-applause-is-due-for-ben-carson.html","url_meta":{"origin":49289,"position":0},"title":"Applause where applause is due for Ben Carson","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 22-Jun-15 5:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Carson's got some goofy ideas about a number of issues, but he's spot on here. 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