{"id":1337,"date":"2004-10-05T03:02:01","date_gmt":"2004-10-05T10:02:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-10-05T03:02:01","modified_gmt":"2004-10-05T10:02:01","slug":"worse-than-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/05\/worse-than-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Worse than Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Vietnam was not easy, but it was certainly far less complex and more straightforward.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is a quote from Bruce Hoffman, a RAND counterinsurgency expert who served as an adviser to the U.S.-led occupation administration, comparing the &#8220;complex insurgency&#8221; in Iraq with Vietnam.  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=540&#038;u=\/ap\/20041004\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/iraq_complex_insurgency_2&#038;printer=1\">Read it all.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Vietnam was not easy, but it was certainly far less complex and more straightforward.&#8221; That is a quote from Bruce Hoffman, a RAND counterinsurgency expert who served as an adviser to the U.S.-led occupation administration, comparing the &#8220;complex insurgency&#8221; in Iraq with Vietnam. Read it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1337","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\/1337","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}