{"id":52,"date":"2001-09-24T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2001-09-24T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=52"},"modified":"2001-09-24T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2001-09-24T18:06:00","slug":"drain-the-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2001\/09\/24\/14\/06\/drain-the-swamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Drain the Swamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warcrazy Rumsford seems to have decided that the UN Charter against genocide is an irrelevant inconvenience when dealing with Afghanis&#8230; and anyone else he doesn&#8217;t like very much. He&#8217;s going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/jensen4.html\">drain the swamp<\/a>, meaning either to kill or force into concentration camps, sorry, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chss.montclair.edu\/english\/furr\/Vietnam\/kolkoch10.html\">strategic hamlets<\/a>, as much of the civilian population as possible. This is the same strategy that earned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirdworldtraveler.com\/International_War_Crimes\/Kissinger_Pinochet%20.html\">Henry<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eclipse.net\/~tgardnet\/kiss\/kisskill.html\">Kissinger<\/a> his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warpeace.org\/kissinger.html\">war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmag.org\/zmag\/articles\/hermansept97.htm\">criminal<\/a> charges during the US&#8217;s last open-ended military adventure with no clear exit strategy or clearly defined military goals. Vietnam started so well and ended so badly, due mostly to astoundingly poor strategy by the Pentagon. I wonder how they&#8217;ll do this time with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/jensen3.html\">Bush&#8217;s call for an unlimited war with unending enemies<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But hey, the concentration camp strategy worked so well for the British in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boer.co.za\/boerwar\/hellkamp.htm\">Boer War<\/a> and the Nazis in WW2 that surely it *must* work this time, right? Of course, resentment and a desire for revenge among the civilian survivors is bound to engender a whole new generation of even more committed terrorists. Wait! I see the answer&#8230; eliminate <i>all<\/i> the civilians. Drain that swamp good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warcrazy Rumsford seems to have decided that the UN Charter against genocide is an irrelevant inconvenience when dealing with Afghanis&#8230; and anyone else he doesn&#8217;t like very much. He&#8217;s going to drain the swamp,&#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-52","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\/52","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=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}