{"id":783,"date":"2001-11-14T18:28:43","date_gmt":"2001-11-14T23:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=783"},"modified":"2001-11-14T18:28:43","modified_gmt":"2001-11-14T23:28:43","slug":"more_explanatio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/14\/more_explanatio.html","title":{"rendered":"More explanations of how now everything is much, much worse in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lakefx.nu\/archive\/2001_11_11_index.html#7107615\">Lake Effect<\/a> takes on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/issues\/0146\/ridgeway.php\">James Ridgeway&#8217;s article <\/a>in the <i>Voice<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">Ridgeway&#8217;s lurid fantasies come from no known war plan, only nightmare scenarios meant to justify his own vision of a belligerent West continually &#8220;antagonizing&#8221; the Muslims into &#8220;jihad attacks from all over&#8221;. 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