{"id":1922,"date":"2004-04-14T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-14T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2004-04-14T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-14T21:38:00","slug":"so-it-goes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/04\/14\/17\/38\/so-it-goes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"So It Goes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A general capturing Baghdad proclaimed thus: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/core\/Content\/displayPrintable.jhtml;$sessionid$HYOSDGQ2JGFBHQFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=\/opinion\/2004\/04\/10\/do1003.xml&#038;site=15\">Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators<\/a>.&#8221; 2003? No, try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/comment\/story\/0,3604,939608,00.html\">1917<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/core\/Content\/displayPrintable.jhtml;$sessionid$HYOSDGQ2JGFBHQFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=\/opinion\/2004\/04\/10\/do1003.xml&#038;site=15\">I was talking to a mid-ranking official in the US Treasury about American plans for the post-war reconstruction of the Iraqi economy. She had just attended a meeting on precisely that subject. &#8220;So what kind of historical precedents have you been considering?&#8221; I asked. &#8220;The post-Communist economies of Eastern Europe,&#8221; she replied. &#8220;We have quite a bit of experience we can draw on from the 1990s.&#8221; When I suggested that the problems of privatisation in Poland might not prove relevant on the banks of the Euphrates, she seemed surprised.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003_04_27_WeekArchive.php#'93654660'\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A general capturing Baghdad proclaimed thus: &#8220;Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.&#8221; 2003? No, try 1917. I was talking to a mid-ranking official&#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-1922","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\/1922","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=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}