{"id":1963,"date":"2008-01-12T22:44:25","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T05:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1963"},"modified":"2008-01-12T22:44:58","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T05:32:58","slug":"charlie-wilsons-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1963","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Wilson&#8217;s War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a decade before he got involved with the Afghan cause, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Wilson_(politician)\">Charlie Wilson<\/a> was Israel&#8217;s biggest congressional supporter. Then he toured the Sabra and Chatila massacre sites in Lebanon (Israel allowed Christians to go into the Palestinian camps and massacre the inhabitants for a couple of days) and felt sick. Without going public with his distress, Wilson looked for a new cause and found it in the Afghans fighting their Soviet invaders.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a decade before he got involved with the Afghan cause, Charlie Wilson was Israel&#8217;s biggest congressional supporter. Then he toured the Sabra and Chatila massacre sites in Lebanon (Israel allowed Christians to go into the Palestinian camps and massacre &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1963\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963","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=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}