{"id":2697,"date":"2006-12-09T22:27:12","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T22:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2006-12-09T22:27:12","modified_gmt":"2006-12-09T22:27:12","slug":"iraq_update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2697","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.d-n-i.net\/fcs\/fabius_iraq_series_2006_part_II.htm\">Fabius Maximus<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>To some, defeat implies a victor. North Vietnam and its allies in the South defeated us thirty years ago. Nothing like that has occurred in Iraq. The collapse of Iraq has no obvious victors. Even Iran might suffer if the instability spreads across the Middle East&rsquo;s porous borders.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nBut there are other ways to lose. We&rsquo;ve found one.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fabius Maximus&#8220;: To some, defeat implies a victor. North Vietnam and its allies in the South defeated us thirty years ago. Nothing like that has occurred in Iraq. The collapse of Iraq has no obvious victors. Even Iran might suffer if the instability spreads across the Middle East&rsquo;s porous borders. But there are other ways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,33,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}