{"id":14868,"date":"2012-05-03T17:09:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T01:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=14868"},"modified":"2012-05-03T17:09:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T01:09:02","slug":"puncturing-obamas-afghan-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/03\/puncturing-obamas-afghan-bubble\/","title":{"rendered":"Puncturing Obama&#8217;s Afghan Bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations, Secret Service! No brawls with whores during Obama\u2019s whistle-stop in Kabul. OK, it wasn&#8217;t an overnight visit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/toles05032012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3545 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/toles05032012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"487\" \/><\/a>*<\/p>\n<p>It was inspiring to hear Obama invoking the usual idealism during his spiel from Bagram Air Base. The event was nicely managed insofar as there were no blood-piercing screams during his speech from detainees being tortured.<\/p>\n<p>Oh &#8211; that&#8217;s right. There isn&#8217;t any more torture in Afghanistan&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>*[another excellent cartoon from the Washington Post&#8217;s Tom Toles]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations, Secret Service! No brawls with whores during Obama\u2019s whistle-stop in Kabul. OK, it wasn&#8217;t an overnight visit&#8230; * It was inspiring to hear Obama invoking the usual idealism during his spiel from Bagram Air Base. The event was nicely managed insofar as there were no blood-piercing screams during his speech from detainees being tortured. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"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-14868","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\/14868","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14871,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14868\/revisions\/14871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14868"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}