{"id":128,"date":"2003-09-26T22:21:16","date_gmt":"2003-09-27T05:21:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-09-26T22:21:16","modified_gmt":"2003-09-27T05:21:16","slug":"idjits-goes-eurasian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/26\/idjits-goes-eurasian\/","title":{"rendered":"Idjits Goes Eurasian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucalgary.ca\/applied_history\/tutor\/islam\/mongols\/ilkhanate.html\" title=\"<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ucalgary.ca\/applied_history\/tutor\/imageislam\/hulagu1294Large.gif\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"8\" hspace=\"8\">&#8220;><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ucalgary.ca\/applied_history\/tutor\/imageislam\/hulagu1294Large.gif\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"8\" hspace=\"8\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nebojsa mentioned the US govt&#8217;s hilariotic idea of sending Mongolian troops to Iraq (below). It&#8217;s worth mentioning also that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megastories.com\/attack\/alqaeda\/osama02nov12.shtml\" title=\"a bin Laden message aired worldwide last year\">a bin Laden message aired worldwide last year<\/a> compared Powell &#038; Cheney to <a href=\"http:\/\/ask.elibrary.com\/login.asp?c=&#038;host=ask%2Eelibrary%2Ecom&#038;script=%2Fgetdoc%2Easp&#038;query=pubname%3DThe%5FIndependent%5F%28Bangladesh%29%26puburl%3Dhttp%7EC%7E%7ES%7E%7ES%7Ewww%2Eemediamillworks%2Ecom%26querydocid%3D73625781%40urn%3Abigchalk%3AUS%3BLib%26dtype%3D0%7E0%26dinst%3D0%26author%3DBrig%2520Gen%2520%2528retd%2529%2520M%2520Sakhawat%2520Hussain%2520%2520%26title%3DDestroying%2520a%2520civilisation%252C%2520THE%2520INDEPENDENT%2520%2520%26date%3D04%2F30%2F2003%26refid%3Dency%5Fbotnm&#038;title=Destroying+a+civilisation%2C+THE+INDEPENDENT++&#038;pubname=The%5FIndependent%5F%28Bangladesh%29&#038;author=Brig+Gen+%28retd%29+M+Sakhawat+Hussain++&#038;date=04%2F30%2F2003&#038;ctrlInfo=\" title=\"Hulagu\">Hulagu<\/a>, so sending a token force of Mongols to Iraq will be a propaganda victory (&#038; no doubt effective recruiting tool) for al Qaeda. <\/p>\n<p>(Explanation for Americans: this is ironic because al Qaeda, not the Iraqi gov&#8217;t, attacked the USA on Sep. 11, &#8217;01.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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-128","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\/128","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=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}