{"id":13672,"date":"2012-01-13T06:49:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T14:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=13672"},"modified":"2012-01-13T06:49:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T14:49:48","slug":"such-things-happen-all-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/13\/such-things-happen-all-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Such things happen all the time&#8230;&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McClatchy reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2012\/01\/12\/135731\/video-of-marines-urinating-on.html\">Afghans aren&#8217;t surprised<\/a> by the video of U.S. Marines urinating on dead Afghans:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Afghanistan, while no major protests were reported the day after the video surfaced online \u2014 purporting to show four Marines standing in a semicircle and urinating on dead Afghans \u2014 one resident said he wasn&#8217;t surprised.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know a lot of horrible things happen in the south and nobody but the locals know about it,&#8221; said Jamal Karimi, 32, referring to southern Afghanistan, where American forces have maintained a large troop presence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Such things happen all the time, and people talk about it but media hardly report them,&#8221; said Karimi, a shopkeeper from the southern city of Kandahar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I said as much when this video first broke out. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/signs-the-war-ought-to-be-reconsidered\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/12\/john-glaser-on-rt-talking-war-in-afghanistan\/\">here<\/a> for my previous discussions on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McClatchy reports that Afghans aren&#8217;t surprised by the video of U.S. Marines urinating on dead Afghans: In Afghanistan, while no major protests were reported the day after the video surfaced online \u2014 purporting to show four Marines standing in a semicircle and urinating on dead Afghans \u2014 one resident said he wasn&#8217;t surprised. &#8220;I know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"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-13672","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\/13672","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\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13673,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13672\/revisions\/13673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13672"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}