{"id":470,"date":"2006-03-22T17:24:27","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T00:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=470"},"modified":"2006-03-22T17:24:27","modified_gmt":"2006-03-23T00:24:27","slug":"three-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"Three Years On&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\">Instapundit <\/a>comes a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogcritics.org\/archives\/2006\/03\/21\/135124.php\">three-year review<\/a> of the Iraq war by Eric Olsen.<\/p>\n<p>Though the ongoing insurgency and the missing WMDs are still unresolved problems, the invasion has clearly met one of its goals:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Iraq invasion has clearly met its corollary goal of fostering change in the region. As &#8217;05 Lebanese intifada leader Walid Jumblatt put it, &#8220;It&#8217;s strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq. I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting [last year], 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world &#8230; The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Instapundit comes a link to a three-year review of the Iraq war by Eric Olsen. Though the ongoing insurgency and the missing WMDs are still unresolved problems, the invasion has clearly met one of its goals: The Iraq invasion has clearly met its corollary goal of fostering change in the region. As &#8217;05 Lebanese &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=470\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Three Years On&#8230;&#8221;<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","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=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}