{"id":10940,"date":"2011-08-11T07:26:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T15:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=10940"},"modified":"2011-08-11T07:34:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T15:34:19","slug":"combat-or-rescue-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/11\/combat-or-rescue-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Combat or Rescue Mission?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have read and heard the mission of the U.S. military helicopter that was recently shot down in Afghanistan described as a &#8220;rescue mission.&#8221; This makes it sound like the helicopter was rescuing hikers from off a mountain who had gotten lost. Make no mistake about it, the crew of the helicopter was on a mission to destroy life, not to save life.\u00a0The <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/aug\/07\/us-helicopter-afghanistan-rescue-mission\">Guardian<\/a><\/em> gets it right.<\/p>\n<p>And how convenient that the government says it has\u00a0now killed the man responsible for shooting down the helicopter! The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/afghanistan\/8695341\/Taliban-deny-Nato-claim-to-have-killed-US-helicopter-attacker.html\">Taliban<\/a> are denying that the &#8220;terrorist&#8221; responsible was actually killed. They are lying, you say, and can&#8217;t be trusted. I suspect that they don&#8217;t lie anymore than the U.S. government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have read and heard the mission of the U.S. military helicopter that was recently shot down in Afghanistan described as a &#8220;rescue mission.&#8221; This makes it sound like the helicopter was rescuing hikers from off a mountain who had gotten lost. Make no mistake about it, the crew of the helicopter was on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10946,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940\/revisions\/10946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10940"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}