{"id":7180,"date":"2009-10-27T21:53:40","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T01:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=7180"},"modified":"2009-10-27T21:53:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T01:53:40","slug":"indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=7180","title":{"rendered":"Indeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2009\/10\/27\/afghanistan\/index.html\">Glenn Greenwald<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We invade and occupy a country, and then label as \"insurgents\" or even \"terrorists\" the people in that country who fight against our invasion and occupation.  With the most circular logic imaginable, we then insist that we must remain in order to defeat the \"insurgents\" and \"terrorists\" -- largely composed of people whose only cause for fighting is our presence in their country.  <\/p>\n<p>    All the while, we clearly exacerbate the very problem we are allegedly attempting to address -- Terrorism -- by predictably and inevitably increasing anti-American anger and hatred through our occupation, which, no matter the strategy, inevitably entails our killing innocent civilians.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suppose I don't get any points anywhere for predicting that this is exactly what was going to happen, 8 years ago. But I did.<\/p>\n<p>One of these days, someone's going to listen to me before they invade another country. That'll be a good day for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Greenwald writes: We invade and occupy a country, and then label as \"insurgents\" or even \"terrorists\" the people in that country who fight against our invasion and occupation. With the most circular logic imaginable, we then insist that we must remain in order to defeat the \"insurgents\" and \"terrorists\" -- largely composed of people [&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-7180","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\/7180","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=7180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}