{"id":86,"date":"2008-05-16T07:43:24","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T14:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/archives\/86"},"modified":"2008-05-16T07:43:24","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T14:43:24","slug":"politics-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2008\/05\/16\/politics-11\/","title":{"rendered":"politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Military columnist Joe Galloway as quoted by <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.salon.com\/~r\/salon\/greenwald\/~3\/290970969\/index.html\">Glenn Greenwald<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Marine Gen. Paul Van Riper had walked out of an Iran scenario war game where he was commander of the opposing forces when he outfoxed the U.S. Navy &#038; Marine attacking forces, sunk over a dozen major American ships and killed over 10,000 U.S. sailors and marines. The headquarters response was to re-start the war game with new rules forbidding Van Riper to employ any of his successful tactics &#8212; using small speedboats and small aircraft packed with explosives in a mass kamikazi attack on the fleet; defeating U.S. eavesdropping by dispatching his orders by messengers; etc.<\/p>\n<p>At this point Van Riper walked out. An investigation of the whole affair was done &#038; DOD promised Van Riper they would release it within a year. They never did.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Awesome eight years, excellent political movement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>update.<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2008\/05\/extravagant-fol.html\">Eric Martin<\/a>: &#8220;Making important policy choices based on hoped for outcomes is something of a pattern for the Bush administration.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military columnist Joe Galloway as quoted by Glenn Greenwald: &#8230;Marine Gen. Paul Van Riper had walked out of an Iran scenario war game where he was commander of the opposing forces when he outfoxed the U.S. Navy &#038; Marine attacking forces, sunk over a dozen major American ships and killed over 10,000 U.S. sailors and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}