{"id":254,"date":"2001-10-24T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2001-10-25T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=254"},"modified":"2001-10-24T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2001-10-25T01:07:00","slug":"saudi-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2001\/10\/24\/21\/07\/saudi-vegetables\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/news\/647338.asp?0dm=C23LB\">Saudi Arabia is likely to do an Iran<\/a> and just splinter after the current King pops his clogs (he&#8217;s currently a virtual vegetable hooked up to a vast array of medical machinery). What kind of goodies will the squabbling Princes and religious factions in Saudi get their mitts on?<\/p>\n<p> 120 British-made, ultra advanced Tornado ground-attack fighter aircraft<br \/>\n 108 U.S.-made F-15 Eagle air superiority fighters and fighter-bombers<br \/>\n 3 U.S.-made C-130 Hercules troop transport aircraft<br \/>\n 315 U.S.-made M-1A2 Abrams main battle tanks<br \/>\n 150 U.S.-made M-60A3 Patton main battle tanks<br \/>\n 48 Black Hawk and other combat helicopters<br \/>\n 2,500-plus armored fighting and troop transport vehicles of various classes<br \/>\n 8,500-plus anti-tank missiles<br \/>\n 1,000-plus SAM surface-to-air missiles<br \/>\n 2,500-plus air-to-air missiles<br \/>\n 900-plus air-to-ground missiles<br \/>\n 126 Exocet and Sea Eagle anti-ship missiles<\/p>\n<p>While not being as lavishly accessorized by the West, of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyu.edu\/globalbeat\/southasia\/albright060198.html\">Pakistan has nuclear weapons<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So apparently Saudi Arabia is likely to do an Iran and just splinter after the current King pops his clogs (he&#8217;s currently a virtual vegetable hooked up to a vast array of medical machinery).&#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-254","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\/254","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=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}