{"id":1773,"date":"2009-12-13T08:42:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T08:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/did-the-iraq-surge-really-work\/"},"modified":"2009-12-13T08:42:06","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T08:42:06","slug":"did-the-iraq-surge-really-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/did-the-iraq-surge-really-work.php","title":{"rendered":"Did the Iraq Surge Really Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consider this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/09\/world\/middleeast\/09iraq.html?hp\">headline<\/a> from today's New York Times:<\/p><blockquote><p>Coordinated Bombings Kill at Least 101 in Baghdad<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Does that sound like a country that has achieved peace and understanding?&nbsp; And we still have over 100,000 troops there.&nbsp;&nbsp; Not to mention that since the Iraq surge, violence has escalated in Pakistan and Afghanistan.<\/p><p>Once we leave (if we leave), civil war seems almost inevitable.&nbsp; This does not mean we should stay; that just delays the inevitable, and at a large, ongoing cost.&nbsp; But we should not kid ourselves about what will happen once we are gone.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f31c4_6379328854053402400-8419536774703980367?l=jeffreymiron.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider this headline from today's New York Times:Coordinated Bombings Kill at Least 101 in BaghdadDoes that sound like a country that has achieved peace and understanding?&nbsp; And we still have over 100,000 troops there.&nbsp;&nbsp; Not to mention that since the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/did-the-iraq-surge-really-work.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarianism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}