{"id":1902,"date":"2004-04-07T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2004-04-07T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-07T15:34:00","slug":"fast-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/04\/07\/11\/34\/fast-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/cgi-bin\/print.cgi?file=\/headlines04\/0406-03.htm\">Senator Joseph Biden &#8230; compared the US quandary to a 1920 revolt against British colonial rule. &#8220;We are caught in the middle. The greatest concern here is a two-front war like the Brits faced.&#8221; The 1920 revolt was suppressed only after 2,200 British troops and an estimated 8,450 Iraqis were killed or wounded.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/fisk04062004.html\">The British took three years to turn both the Sunnis and the Shias into their enemies in 1920. The Americans are achieving it in just under a year.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Joseph Biden &#8230; compared the US quandary to a 1920 revolt against British colonial rule. &#8220;We are caught in the middle. The greatest concern here is a two-front war like the Brits faced.&#8221;&#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-1902","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\/1902","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=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}