{"id":1350,"date":"2004-12-22T20:04:03","date_gmt":"2004-12-23T01:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/bring_them_home\/"},"modified":"2004-12-22T20:04:03","modified_gmt":"2004-12-23T01:04:03","slug":"bring_them_home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/12\/bring_them_home\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring Them Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Question (and today&#8217;s news channel obsession): What can be done to keep our troops safe in Iraq?<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the only way they will be <i>safe<\/i>.  In case people missed this, there&#8217;s hundreds of insurgents trying to shot or blow the Americans up.  And the guerillas are going to keep it up for the foreseeable future.  I&#8217;m sure the military has done all the easy things it can to avoid the casualties.  And if there&#8217;s any magic fixes left, those in the know aren&#8217;t going to be publicizing them on national TV anyway.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the same old perspectiveless news phenomenon we see all the time.  Had these 13 soldiers been killed in Iraq over a week or so&#8211;one or two at a time&#8211;it would have been business as usual and would only have warranted the obligatory footnote coverage leading into commercial breaks.  But since they died in a spectacular attack, we&#8217;re suddenly awash in stories about &#8220;keeping the troops safe&#8221; and &#8220;is Iraq descending into chaos?&#8221;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s almost as though the media has the attention of a 12-year-old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/12\/bring_them_home\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Bring Them Home\"><p>The Question (and today&#8217;s news channel obsession): What can be done to keep our troops safe in Iraq? That&#8217;s the only way they will be safe. In case people missed this, there&#8217;s hundreds of insurgents trying to shot or blow the Americans up. And the guerillas are going to keep it up for the foreseeable [&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-1350","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\/1350","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=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}