The news today is that there’s no news in Iraq. The turnout in today’s elections appears to be over 70%.<\/p>\n
So how exactly is the US losing<\/i> in Iraq?<\/p>\n
Update: everything you knew about Iraq is wrong<\/a>. <\/p>\n If I am truly unbiased, then I need to get used to this one simple fact; that the untold story, might in fact, be a positive one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n (Hat tip: Instapundit<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The news today is that there’s no news in Iraq. The turnout in today’s elections appears to be over 70%. So how exactly is the US losing in Iraq? Update: everything you knew about Iraq is wrong. If I am truly unbiased, then I need to get used to this one simple fact; that the … Continue reading “Slow News Day”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}