{"id":622,"date":"2008-02-20T08:41:58","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T15:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=622"},"modified":"2009-08-28T17:03:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T00:03:28","slug":"more-guns-bombs-in-iraq-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"More Guns &#038; Bombs in Iraq = Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those in doubt about <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/WN\/story?id=4292435&#038;page=1\">last year&#8217;s &#8220;surge&#8221; of troops in Iraq<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re looking for one measure of the impact of last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s troop surge in Iraq, look at Gen. David Petraeus as he walks through a Baghdad neighborhood, with no body armor, and no helmet. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been one year since the beginning of what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s known here as Operation Fardh Al Qadnoon. According to the U.S. military, violence is down 60 percent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those in doubt about last year&#8217;s &#8220;surge&#8221; of troops in Iraq: If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re looking for one measure of the impact of last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s troop surge in Iraq, look at Gen. David Petraeus as he walks through a Baghdad neighborhood, with no body armor, and no helmet. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been one year since the beginning of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=622\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More Guns &#038; Bombs in Iraq = Peace&#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":[114],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","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=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}