{"id":1813,"date":"2005-10-17T14:03:16","date_gmt":"2005-10-17T18:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/black_and_white\/"},"modified":"2005-10-17T14:03:16","modified_gmt":"2005-10-17T18:03:16","slug":"black_and_white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/10\/black_and_white\/","title":{"rendered":"Black And White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/desmoinesregister.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20051016\/NEWS08\/510160303\/1001\/SPORTS02\">in Iraq<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q. What is it about Iraq that Americans don&#8217;t understand?<br \/>\nA. It&#8217;s been hard for Americans to accept how complicated it is there. Most Americans want an up-down, yes-no answer to whether we&#8217;re right or wrong, succeeding or failing. Certainly the summer of 2003 when I was reporting that piece it was anything but simple. What interested me most was how Iraqis and Americans viewed each other. There were misunderstandings and suspicions, but a fair amount of good will on both sides and a desire to reach out and find out who these other people were. That has changed. The violence is so enormous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmm, Americans not seeing the complexity in Iraq?   I can&#8217;t imagine why they aren&#8217;t.  After a couple of years of listening to the Bush administration talk about &#8220;freedom&#8221; versus the &#8220;terrorists,&#8221; you&#8217;d think everyone would understand the factions and motives in play over there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/10\/black_and_white\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Black And White\"><p>. . . in Iraq: Q. What is it about Iraq that Americans don&#8217;t understand? A. It&#8217;s been hard for Americans to accept how complicated it is there. Most Americans want an up-down, yes-no answer to whether we&#8217;re right or wrong, succeeding or failing. Certainly the summer of 2003 when I was reporting that piece [&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-1813","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\/1813","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=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}