{"id":711,"date":"2002-01-18T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-18T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=711"},"modified":"2002-01-18T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-18T20:02:00","slug":"somalia-military-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/01\/18\/16\/02\/somalia-military-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia Military History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/print.html?StoryID=12253\">comprehensive history<\/a> of US and Russian military involvement in Ethiopia and Somalia. Well, mostly US.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/print.html?StoryID=12253\"><i>David Halberstam quotes the U.S. Secretary of Defense telling an associate, &#8220;We&#8217;re sending the Rangers to Somalia. We are not going to be able to control them. They are like overtrained pit bulls. No one controls them.&#8221;) Shootings at U.S. military roadblocks became increasingly commonplace and Somalis witnessed scenes of mostly white American forces harassing and shooting their black countrymen.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a comprehensive history of US and Russian military involvement in Ethiopia and Somalia. Well, mostly US. David Halberstam quotes the U.S. Secretary of Defense telling an associate, &#8220;We&#8217;re sending the Rangers to&#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-711","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\/711","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=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}