{"id":307,"date":"2001-11-02T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2001-11-02T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=307"},"modified":"2001-11-02T14:17:00","modified_gmt":"2001-11-02T18:17:00","slug":"doomed-at-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2001\/11\/02\/14\/17\/doomed-at-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Doomed At Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it looks like the US is now backing away from the idea of a democratic, inclusive post-Taliban government and is going for the old reliable US-approved repressive military dictatorship, AKA the Northern Alliance. Right, that&#8217;s going to work well, I have no doubt. The Taliban emerged partly as a result of disgust with the campaign of raping and looting the Northern Alliance indulged in the last time they seized power.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/news\/651593.asp\"><i>The strategy was clouded partially by concerns over efforts to foster the establishment of a post-Taliban government including all segments of Afghan society.<br \/>\n       Pentagon officials said they have now stopped waiting for a political solution and have stepped up aerial raids designed to help the Northern Alliance, aiming more bombs at Taliban troop locations in recent days.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it looks like the US is now backing away from the idea of a democratic, inclusive post-Taliban government and is going for the old reliable US-approved repressive military dictatorship, AKA the Northern Alliance.&#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-307","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\/307","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=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}