{"id":117,"date":"2003-09-24T23:39:01","date_gmt":"2003-09-25T06:39:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-09-24T23:39:01","modified_gmt":"2003-09-25T06:39:01","slug":"sifting-through-the-rubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/24\/sifting-through-the-rubble\/","title":{"rendered":"Sifting Through the Rubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John B. Judis has an article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/print\/V14\/9\/judis-j.html\" title=\"'Sifting Through the Rubble'\">&#8216;Sifting Through the Rubble&#8217;<\/a> in the October 1 <i>American Prospect<\/i> that presents a &#8220;balance sheet&#8221; of US &#8220;failures&#8221; in Iraq. According to Judis, (besides generally spreading chaos) the invasion has:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Reversed Arab efforts to reform Saudi Arabia.<br \/>\n&#8211; Increased US political dependence on Saudi Arabia.<br \/>\n&#8211; Increased the power of Saudi-led OPEC.<br \/>\n&#8211; Raised the price of oil for US consumers.<br \/>\n&#8211; Boosted the Saudi economy (up 7% this year).<\/p>\n<p>Still waiting for evidence of fanatical devotion to democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John B. Judis has an article &#8216;Sifting Through the Rubble&#8217; in the October 1 American Prospect that presents a &#8220;balance sheet&#8221; of US &#8220;failures&#8221; in Iraq. According to Judis, (besides generally spreading chaos) the invasion has: &#8211; Reversed Arab efforts to reform Saudi Arabia. &#8211; Increased US political dependence on Saudi Arabia. &#8211; Increased the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"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\/117","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}