{"id":1167,"date":"2004-09-26T04:34:51","date_gmt":"2004-09-26T08:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/catching_flies\/"},"modified":"2004-09-26T04:34:51","modified_gmt":"2004-09-26T08:34:51","slug":"catching_flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/09\/catching_flies\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Flies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader at War and Peace <a title=\"War and Piece:\" href=\"http:\/\/www.warandpiece.com\/blogdirs\/001142.html\">makes an excellent point<\/a>: if part of the &#8220;success&#8221; in Iraq is that it has allowed us to fight the &#8220;terrorists&#8221; on the battlefield of our choosing (the so-called flypaper strategy), then why is the US pressuring neighbor states to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A34119-2004Sep19.html\">secure their borders with Iraq<\/a>?  If our intent is to confront the &#8220;terrorists&#8221; in Baghdad rather than Boston, shouldn&#8217;t we <i>want<\/i> porous Iraqi borders to facilitate the terrorist&#8217;s migration into our trap?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/09\/catching_flies\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Catching Flies\"><p>A reader at War and Peace makes an excellent point: if part of the &#8220;success&#8221; in Iraq is that it has allowed us to fight the &#8220;terrorists&#8221; on the battlefield of our choosing (the so-called flypaper strategy), then why is the US pressuring neighbor states to secure their borders with Iraq? If our intent is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}