{"id":115269,"date":"2017-06-21T12:14:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T20:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=115269"},"modified":"2017-06-21T12:14:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T20:14:02","slug":"nation-building-in-afghanistan-from-sean-connery-to-brad-pitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=115269","title":{"rendered":"Nation-Building in Afghanistan, from Sean Connery to Brad Pitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/nation-building-in-afghanistan-from-sean-connery-to-brad-pitt\/\">Comments at Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>* Continuing to pour resources into a war after sixteen years is an indication that the military-industrial complex really does govern the United States. The rest of us just live here.<\/p>\n<p>* It\u2019s interesting that the Pentagon was unenthusiastic about starting the war in Libya, but went along with the State \/ White House war fever. It\u2019s sort of a One War for You, One War for Me deal. We\u2019ll fight your war if you let us keep fighting our war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments at Steve Sailer: * Continuing to pour resources into a war after sixteen years is an indication that the military-industrial complex really does govern the United States. The rest of us just live here. * It\u2019s interesting that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=115269\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115270,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115269\/revisions\/115270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}