{"id":2600,"date":"2006-10-22T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-22T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2600"},"modified":"2006-10-22T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-22T17:53:00","slug":"no-plan-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/10\/22\/13\/53\/no-plan-b\/","title":{"rendered":"No Plan B"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two years ago, when there were 150,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and effectively zero Iraqi forces, the expectation was that once the Iraqis were trained up, security would improve. Now there are 140,000 Americans and 130,000 Iraqi troops, and parts of the country\u00e2\u20ac\u201dBaghdad among them\u00e2\u20ac\u201dare worse off than ever. No one knows what to do about it. “There is no plan B,” says one senior Pentagon official, not wanting his name on such a gloomy assessment.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two years ago, when there were 150,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and effectively zero Iraqi forces, the expectation was that once the Iraqis were trained up, security would improve. Now there are 140,000 Americans...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t