{"id":750,"date":"2002-01-25T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-25T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=750"},"modified":"2002-01-25T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-25T20:36:00","slug":"not-over-till-the-fat-lady-bombed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/01\/25\/16\/36\/not-over-till-the-fat-lady-bombed\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Over Till The Fat Lady Bombed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/0,,2002030016-2002041322,00.html\">new Taliban army is threatening US<\/a> and US-backed forces in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, some of the Northern Alliance warlords are fighting amongst themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Bush would not be the first person to mistake his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafe.edu\/~shalizi\/reviews\/kakar-soviet-invasion\/\">initial invasion of Afghanistan<\/a> to be an enduring success. The key seems to be for another world power to support insurgent forces within Afghanistan, and I note that this is now happening with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/0,,2002030016-2002040986,00.html\">Iran supplying proxy forces there<\/a>, helped by Chinese arms shipments (for which the Bush <a href=\"http:\/\/asp.washtimes.com\/printarticle.asp?action=print&#038;ArticleID=20020125-97804390\">regime has already sanctioned China<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the US-installed <a href=\"http:\/\/printerfriendly.abcnews.com\/printerfriendly\/Print?fetchFromGLUE=true&#038;GLUEService=ABCNewsCom\">Karzai regime sounds increasingly desperate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/printerfriendly.abcnews.com\/printerfriendly\/Print?fetchFromGLUE=true&#038;GLUEService=ABCNewsCom\">begging for more troops and a long-term US military presence<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/0,,2002030016-2002041322,00.html\"><i>Times<\/i> piece talks about 100,000 US troops being required<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier <a href=\"..\/Blogfiles\/2002_01_13_WeekArchive.php#8729530\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Taliban army is threatening US and US-backed forces in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, some of the Northern Alliance warlords are fighting amongst themselves. Bush would not be the first person to mistake his initial&#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-750","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\/750","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=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}