{"id":8765,"date":"2009-04-21T20:24:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T04:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8765"},"modified":"2009-04-21T20:24:20","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T04:24:20","slug":"the-gamble-by-thomas-e-ricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8765","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Gamble&#8217; by Thomas E. Ricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/books\/la-et-rutten10-2009feb10,0,2430638.story\">This is the best book yet<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gamble-Petraeus-American-Adventure-2006-2008\/dp\/1594201978\">the Surge in Iraq and General David Petreaus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read every book that has come out on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>Many of my readers don&#8217;t realize that I have a deep reservoir of knowledge about counter-insurgency techniques developed during my days at Aish HaTorah and carried forward to my 12 years in the porn industry where I lived off the land like a Maoist guerilla, winning hearts and minds while protecting the people from the predatory male gaze and institutional attempts to objectify the curvy and beguiling young female form.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/War-Within-Secret-History-2006-2008\/dp\/1416558977\/ref=pd_cp_b_0?pf_rd_p=413864201&#038;pf_rd_s=center-41&#038;pf_rd_t=201&#038;pf_rd_i=B001FXWKMW&#038;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&#038;pf_rd_r=03NB4T1G1X8VP8H4RKCA\">Bob Woodward&#8217;s book on the surge<\/a> was a great read while <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tell-Me-How-This-Ends\/dp\/1586485288\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1240373337&#038;sr=1-1\">Linda Robinson&#8217;s was a difficult slog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the best book yet on the Surge in Iraq and General David Petreaus. I&#8217;ve read every book that has come out on the subject. Many of my readers don&#8217;t realize that I have a deep reservoir of knowledge &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8765\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[17285,17286,8397,17287,17284],"class_list":["post-8765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","tag-bob-woodward","tag-deep-reservoir","tag-hearts-and-minds","tag-linda-robinson","tag-male-gaze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765","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=8765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8766,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765\/revisions\/8766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}