{"id":6215,"date":"2012-01-14T18:47:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T09:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2012-01-14T18:47:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T09:47:22","slug":"marine-peace-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/marine-peace-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Peace Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those two Marines should be reprimanded, but only for doing it wrong: first you piss on the Taliban&#8217;s foreheads, THEN you shoot them, and then by God, there will be peace.<\/p>\n<p>Trust me, the Afghan good guys who have suffered under the Taliban see it this way, and our squeamishness is why they do not trust us.  Pretending that this is a war between uniformed forces is a disaster.  This is a battle against savage animals.<\/p>\n<p>At least *somebody* is trying to to win the F&#8217;n war over there.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, in my world (as in, when I&#8217;m king), Taliban don&#8217;t get funerals&#8211;they get composted.  So good on ya Devil Dogs!  Providing not only fresh fertilizer, but irrigation to the farms of Afghanistan.  That&#8217;s COIN-plus, right there.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6215\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6215\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those two Marines should be reprimanded, but only for doing it wrong: first you piss on the Taliban&#8217;s foreheads, THEN you shoot them, and then by God, there will be peace.<\/p>\n<p>Trust me, the Afghan good guys who have suffered under the Taliban see it this way, and our squeamishness is why they do not trust us. Pretending that this is a war between uniformed forces is a disaster. This is a battle against savage animals.<\/p>\n<p>At least *somebody* is trying to to win the F&#8217;n war over there.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, in my world (as in, when I&#8217;m king), Taliban don&#8217;t get funerals&#8211;they get composted. So good on ya Devil Dogs! Providing not only fresh fertilizer, but irrigation to the farms of Afghanistan. That&#8217;s COIN-plus, right there.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" ... <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/marine-peace-process\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}