{"id":2293,"date":"2008-04-08T12:52:21","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T16:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/success_in_iraq\/"},"modified":"2008-04-08T12:52:21","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T16:52:21","slug":"success_in_iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2008\/04\/success_in_iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Success&#8221; In Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people in Washington DC are regurgitating talking points regarding Iraq today.  So why not join in?<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s plenty of debate regarding &#8220;victory&#8221; or &#8220;winning&#8221; in Iraq.  What do those words mean?<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s my definition:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>America will be on the path toward <em>success<\/em> in Iraq when we are able to remove a substantial number of American troops (more than 50%) without the country descending into chaos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Five years into the conflict and I&#8217;m still waiting to see signs that we are anywhere close to victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2008\/04\/success_in_iraq\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to &#8220;Success&#8221; In Iraq\"><p>A lot of people in Washington DC are regurgitating talking points regarding Iraq today. So why not join in? There&#8217;s plenty of debate regarding &#8220;victory&#8221; or &#8220;winning&#8221; in Iraq. What do those words mean? Here&#8217;s my definition: America will be on the path toward success in Iraq when we are able to remove a substantial [&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-2293","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\/2293","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=2293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}