{"id":796,"date":"2004-03-23T15:49:48","date_gmt":"2004-03-23T20:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/03\/unforeseen_consequences\/"},"modified":"2004-03-23T15:49:48","modified_gmt":"2004-03-23T20:49:48","slug":"unforeseen_consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/unforeseen_consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Unforeseen Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2004\/03\/23\/1079939638430.html\">this<\/a>  will usher in a new era of peace:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Israel will try to kill the entire Hamas leadership, striking whenever an opportunity presents itself, a security official said today.<br \/>\nThe decision was made secretly by the Israeli Cabinet last week, in response to a double suicide bombing at an Israeli seaport, the official said on condition of anonymity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By way of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.damnforeigner.com\/archives\/2004_03.html#000461\">Damn Foreigner<\/a>, I see in one of <a hre=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.net\/archives\/001811.html\">Billmon&#8217;s posts<\/a> that once upon a time Israel was actually a big financial supporter of Hamas, who it thought would be a useful counterbalance to the PLO.  Funny how the wheel turns, isn&#8217;t it?  Just as the United States once supported Saddam Hussein and the fore-runners of the Afghan Taliban as strategic allies.<br \/>\nNow we&#8217;re engaged in political engineering in Iraq.  But I&#8217;m sure this time it will be different.  This time we have &#8220;adults&#8221; calling the shots, who&#8217;ve undoubtedly got the new democratic Iraq all planned out.<br \/>\nNothing unforeseen will happen this time around, will it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/unforeseen_consequences\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Unforeseen Consequences\"><p>I&#8217;m sure this will usher in a new era of peace: Israel will try to kill the entire Hamas leadership, striking whenever an opportunity presents itself, a security official said today. The decision was made secretly by the Israeli Cabinet last week, in response to a double suicide bombing at an Israeli seaport, the official [&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-796","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\/796","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=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}