{"id":1339,"date":"2009-09-06T17:15:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T00:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2009-09-06T17:15:40","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T00:15:40","slug":"the-power-of-words-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/09\/06\/the-power-of-words-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The power of words, again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raffi Khatchadourian in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/multimedia\/2009\/07\/06\/090706_audioslideshow_iraqmurder\">the New Yorker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the time of Steele&#8217;s deployment, the 101st Airborne&#8217;s base of operations in Iraq was in Tikrit, and its offices were divided into two wings: one was devoted to operational matters, such as raids to kill or capture insurgents; the other was focussed on civil and legal affairs. Someone had posted a sign reading &#8220;Carnivores&#8221; over the entrance to the operations wing, and a sign reading &#8220;Herbivores&#8221; over the other entrance. Though intended as satire, the signs reflected a deep division\u2026\u00a0It was not until the surge of 2007 that the work\u2026\u00a0was synthesized, under the command of General David Patraeus, into a strategic framework.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Petraeus did away with a false dichotomy. We&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Omnivore\">omnivores<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raffi Khatchadourian in the New Yorker: At the time of Steele&#8217;s deployment, the 101st Airborne&#8217;s base of operations in Iraq was in Tikrit, and its offices were divided into two wings: one was devoted to operational matters, such as raids to kill or capture insurgents; the other was focussed on civil and legal affairs. Someone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}