{"id":18953,"date":"2013-08-28T10:06:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T14:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=18953"},"modified":"2013-08-28T10:06:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T14:06:06","slug":"war-pigs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=18953","title":{"rendered":"War Pigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2013\/08\/the-wise-men-of-iraq-give-us-counsel-about-syria\/279110\/\">Perhaps you will be surprised<\/a> to learn that the experts recommend resolute military measures. Or perhaps you won't, since that is what they recommended for Iraq and are still recommending for Iran. Of course these would be controlled, \"standoff\" uses of force that will work just as planned and will bolster only \"vetted moderate elements\" of the opposition. Very much as the same experts foresaw the last time they had the stage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"Pearl Jam - Masters Of War (Bob Dylan)\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_aguQc5kr6N8\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/aguQc5kr6N8\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aguQc5kr6N8\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M56S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2011-08-30T15:00:28Z\" \/><\/div><meta itemprop=\"accessibilityFeature\" content=\"captions\" \/><div id=\"lyte_aguQc5kr6N8\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/aguQc5kr6N8\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Pearl Jam - Masters Of War (Bob Dylan)<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/aguQc5kr6N8\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/aguQc5kr6N8\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Pearl Jam - Masters Of War (Bob Dylan)\" width=\"640\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Pearl Jam - Masters Of War (Bob Dylan)\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/08\/28\/opinion\/bomb-syria-even-if-it-is-illegal.html?hp&_r=0\">Bomb Syria, Even if It Is Illegal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But if the White House takes international law seriously \u2014 as the State Department does \u2014 it cannot try to have it both ways. It must either argue that an \u201cillegal but legitimate\u201d intervention is better than doing nothing, or assert that international law has changed \u2014 strategies that I call \u201cconstructive noncompliance.\u201d In the case of Syria, I vote for the latter. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"Black Sabbath War Pigs Live 1970 Lyrics\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_zxTKxFEhEBY\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/zxTKxFEhEBY\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zxTKxFEhEBY\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT7M32S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2009-07-20T21:51:43Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_zxTKxFEhEBY\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/zxTKxFEhEBY\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Black Sabbath War Pigs Live 1970 Lyrics<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zxTKxFEhEBY\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/zxTKxFEhEBY\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Black Sabbath War Pigs Live 1970 Lyrics\" width=\"640\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Generals gathered in their masses Just like witches at black masses Evil minds that plot destruction Sorcerers of deaths construction In the fields the bodies burning As the war machine keeps turning Death and hatred to mankind Poisoning their brainwashed minds, oh lord yeah! Politicians hide themselves away They only started the war Why should they go out to fight? They leave that role to the poor Time will tell on their power minds Making war just for fun Treating people just like pawns in chess Wait till their judgement day comes, yeah! Now in darkness, world stops turning As the war machine keeps burning No more war pigs of the power Hand of God has sturck the hour Day of judgement, God is calling On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging mercy for their sins Satan, laughing, spreads his wings All right now!\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/imminent-us-strike-on-syria-could-draw-nation-into-civil-war\/2013\/08\/27\/d780e0f6-0f59-11e3-bdf6-e4fc677d94a1_story.html\n\">An imminent U.S. strike<\/a> on Syrian government targets in response to the alleged gassing of civilians last week has the potential to draw the United States into the country\u2019s civil war, former U.S. officials said Tuesday, warning that history doesn\u2019t bode well for such limited retaliatory interventions.<\/p>\n<p>The best historical parallels \u2014 the 1998 cruise missile strikes on targets in Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan \u2014 are rife with unintended consequences and feature little success.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_3_XswHm514w\"><div id=\"lyte_3_XswHm514w\" data-src=\"\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/3_XswHm514w\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3_XswHm514w\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/3_XswHm514w\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"640\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/worldnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/08\/28\/20226505-at-least-71-dead-201-hurt-in-bombings-and-other-attacks-across-iraqi-capital?lite\n\">BAGHDAD, Iraq<\/a> -- At least 71 people were killed and 201 wounded in a series of bombings and other attacks across Baghdad on Wednesday, police and medical sources said, extending the worst wave of sectarian bloodshed in Iraq for at least five years. <\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear who carried out the attacks, which appeared coordinated, but Sunni Muslim insurgents including the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq have significantly stepped up bombings this year. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you will be surprised to learn that the experts recommend resolute military measures. Or perhaps you won't, since that is what they recommended for Iraq and are still recommending for Iran. Of course these would be controlled, \"standoff\" uses of force that will work just as planned and will bolster only \"vetted moderate elements\" [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}