{"id":1824,"date":"2003-12-12T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-12T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2003-12-12T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-12T21:33:00","slug":"local-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/12\/12\/17\/33\/local-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gulf-news.com\/articles\/opinion.asp?articleID=104980\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Iran] will, come hell or high water, build an atomic bomb. I doubt the US can do much to stop it &#8230; Iranians have some 15,000, perhaps, <b>20,000 so-called Badr troops<\/b> and entrenched intelligence-apparatus inside Iraq formed of Iraqi Shiites, Arab-speakers and sitting quiet cells &#8230; the 150,000 <b>American troops in Iraq are &#8220;hostages&#8221;<\/b>. They move out of protected garrisons, to which they return. Administrator <b>Paul Bremer is hiding inside Saddam Hussain&#8217;s palaces<\/b>, seeing few Iraqis, engaged in a tense relationship with his own American commanders and visiting Washington more often than the streets of Baghdad &#8230; <b>US diplomacy meanwhile is paralysed<\/b>. In the whole Gulf region and Middle East, and as far as Indonesia and Pakistan, <b>US diplomats, are sequestered<\/b> in their heavily protected embassies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a>Earlier <a href=\"..\/Blogfiles\/2003_08_31_WeekArchive.php#'106288301805294370'\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Iran] will, come hell or high water, build an atomic bomb. I doubt the US can do much to stop it &#8230; Iranians have some 15,000, perhaps, 20,000 so-called Badr troops and entrenched intelligence-apparatus&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}