{"id":2036,"date":"2004-06-21T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-22T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2004-06-21T20:35:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-22T00:35:00","slug":"an-beal-bocht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/06\/21\/20\/35\/an-beal-bocht\/","title":{"rendered":"An Beal Bocht"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/comment\/friedman200405120952.asp\">I question the idea that young people in the CPA are not experienced. Who has experience in what we&#8217;re doing? What precedent is there for that?&#8221; &#8230; there are aspects of rebuilding a country that no amount of experience can prepare for.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So for Simone Ledeen and the other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004_05_23_WeekArchive.php#'108543494244977187'\">fresh-faced Republican recruits sent to Baghdad<\/a> to re-engineer Iraq&#8217;s social and economic systems, there are no nation-building projects. All the available experience of various United Nations and other international organizations in rebuilding countries &#8212; some like East Timor or Somalia Rwanda in far worse shape than Iraq &#8212; counts for nought. By going it alone, spurning UN involvement and expertise, and then complaining that there are &#8220;no precedents&#8221;, they only advertise their ignorance. I am <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armscontrolwonk.com\/archive\/2004_05_01_index.php\">not the only one<\/a> who noticed this remarkably self-cented absurdity. Earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004_05_23_WeekArchive.php#'108543494244977187'\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I question the idea that young people in the CPA are not experienced. Who has experience in what we&#8217;re doing? What precedent is there for that?&#8221; &#8230; there are aspects of rebuilding a country&#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-2036","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\/2036","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=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}