{"id":903,"date":"2004-05-05T01:38:41","date_gmt":"2004-05-05T05:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/strategic_catastrophe\/"},"modified":"2004-05-05T01:38:41","modified_gmt":"2004-05-05T05:38:41","slug":"strategic_catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/strategic_catastrophe\/","title":{"rendered":"“Strategic Catastrophe”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ambassador Joseph Wilson was on last night’s Lou Dobbs Tonight<\/i><\/a> and made a notable prediction:<\/p>\n

DOBBS: What would you have the United States do now in Iraq?
\nWILSON: Anything I say about that now is likely going to be overtaken by events within the next 48 hours. I believe, as a former Reagan official and good friend of mine said just the other night, we are on the eve of a strategic catastrophe.
\nNow, if we don’t have a plan already off the shelf which basically involves putting in massive amounts of military soldiers and material and heavy armor — one of the big problems in this is not the lack of body armor. It is the lack of Bradley fighting vehicles and M-1 tanks to protect our forces out there.
\nYou contrast what we did in Baghdad with what we did in Bosnia, where we took no battlefield deaths during the eight years that we did that, to the 700 deaths we’re taking now.
\nBut in order to recoup the situation, you’ve got to quell the insurgency. You’ve got to shock it, and at the same time you’ve got to demonstrate to the international community that you are serious. And the only way you can demonstrate that is through this massive new investment of military and material.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t know what Wilson is hinting about “within the next 48 hours,” and in typical TV fashion Dobbs didn’t follow up on this intriguing statement.
\nWe’ll soon see if anything happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ambassador Joseph Wilson was on last night’s Lou Dobbs Tonight and made a notable prediction: DOBBS: What would you have the United States do now in Iraq? WILSON: Anything I say about that now is likely going to be overtaken by events within the next 48 hours. I believe, as a former Reagan official and […]<\/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-903","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\/903","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=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}